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The police should not be financially incentivized to enforce any aspect of the law, because it leads directly to corruption. CMV?
by courseofaction 2y ago
The police should not be financially incentivized to enforce any aspect of the law, because it leads directly to corruption. CMV?
- spencerflem 2y agowhy would I do that? :p
- JumpCrisscross 2y ago> CMV? Convince me…variably? Cytomegalovirus?
- eesmith 2y agohttps://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=CMV https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=CMV says 'Change My View', though 'Catch My Vibe' also works here.
- SllX 2y agoReddit lingo. Change My View.
- Dylan16807 2y agoI have never seen anyone abbreviate it like that before. Let's not do that.
- SllX 2y ago1) Let’s not prescribe language-use on the web instead. Something that originates in one place does not always stay in one place. How does that sound? 2) It’s abbreviated in every single thread on the sub in which it originated: https://www.reddit.com/r/changemyview/ https://www.reddit.com/r/changemyview/ 3) Now that you have seen it and received the explanation, you will recognize it and can be the messenger in the future.
- Dylan16807 2y ago1) I think word use is an ongoing process and sometimes I want to participate in that negotiation. 2) Showing that a phrase is abbreviated on the specific subreddit named after that phrase is one of the least convincing arguments possible for general use of that abbreviation. 3) I could, but that doesn't sound like something I particularly want to happen.
- SllX 2y ago> I have never seen anyone abbreviate it like that before. When you phrased your original post like this, I thought that meant you were familiar with the common phrase but somehow missed the abbreviation. So bullet point 2 was not an argument, but context. Here’s an argument though: being part of the ongoing process of negotiating word use usually takes the form of choosing which words and phrases to make part of your own vernacular and which ones to omit. Nobody wants to hear “let’s not do that” nor “don’t do that”, especially over such a mundane abbreviation.
- Dylan16807 2y ago> Nobody wants to hear “let’s not do that” Do you mean nobody wants to hear it directed at them? That's true in general, even in situations where it really needs to be said. So that's not a very compelling reason to not say it. If you mean nobody wants to hear those words ever, from anyone to anyone, then that's not true.
- SllX 2y agoIn general, but don’t lose the emphasis: especially over such a mundane abbreviation.
- anal_reactor 2y ago[flagged]
- cm2187 2y agoWhy not? If you want good meat, give financial incentives to your butcher. If you want good policing, give financial incentives to your police. The problem isn't the presence of financial incentives, but badly designed financial incentives.
- moomin 2y agoThe problem’s deeper than that: and financial incentive you design, you provide a financial incentive to abuse it. This is why so few people recommend metric-based compensation.
- cm2187 2y agoNot sure where you saw that few people recommend that. In a company, managers are routinely incentivised based on specific metrics (good or bad, typically budget plus some softer metrics). It's the norm, not the exception. It was even the case in communist russia by the way. With horribly designed metrics, like maximising tonnage of a factory output, which lead factory managers to ditch better product for lesser, heavier products. I think it was described in the book Red Plenty. Again the problem isn't incentives, it is badly designed incentives.
- BrenBarn 2y ago> If you want good policing, give financial incentives to your police. But civil asset forfeiture isn't incentivizing good policing.