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Because those who would hold them accountable either created or support said immoral laws. Also, you could go the deontological route, and say that by doing th
by madaxe_again 12y ago
Because those who would hold them accountable either created or support said immoral laws.
Also, you could go the deontological route, and say that by doing their duty they are being moral, for what other measure do you have, in a subjective and self-referential world?
Although frankly I think that you either have to be amazingly naïve or amazingly egoistical (or both) to work in law enforcement and not have moral qualms about your employ.
- JoeAltmaier 12y agoHarsh! Without police, random thugs would rule. Now you may slander police as thugs, but they follow rules, and those rules can be changed. Where your random thug is just out for himself, and out to get your stuff.
- dragonwriter 12y ago> Now you may slander police as thugs, but they follow rules They are supposed to follow rules (aka, the law), just like everyone is supposed to. There are quite reasonable bases for being concerned that they too often don't, and that they are less constrained to do so than others, because they receive preferential treatment from the enforcers of the law, being as how that is their own community.
- JoeAltmaier 12y agoBe as concerned as you need to be. But 'no police' is a polyanna foolishness. Somalia has no police. That is not a good place to be.
- innguest 12y agoYour argument is: - Somalia has no police - Somalia is not a good place to be - therefore those two things must be related somehow Which is wrong, because if that was the case, Iceland wouldn't have survived 300 years without police in the medieval age. Instead may I recommend you start here: http://world.intellectualprops.com/liberty/faq-anarchy-in-somalia-and-its-relevance-to-anarchismstatelessness/ http://world.intellectualprops.com/liberty/faq-anarchy-in-so...
- sosborn 12y ago>they too often don't define "too often." Of the many interactions police offices have with civilians in a calendar year, what percentage of them could be classified as corrupt/evil?
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- madaxe_again 12y agoI'm not saying there shouldn't be police - I'm saying that people who want to be police should not be police. The vast majority of police work could be carried out by individuals selected through sortition, not dissimilarly to jury duty. For longer-term roles, which require a higher level of expertise, we have no solution right now other than career law enforcement folks, but soon, AI could fill that gap.