From: Michael S. Lorrey (retroman@turbont.net)
Date: Mon Sep 27 1999 - 22:55:42 MDT
Lee Daniel Crocker wrote:
>
> > A police officer is roughly defined as an individual hired by a given city
> > to provide general protection services and to maintain the jurisdictional
> > laws. The Chief of Police in Washington, D.C., proposes placing more
> > police officers on the night shift, so as to provide a greater presence of
> > police officers at the time the criminals are more active. The police
> > union strongly opposes this new strategy, and Thursday morning our police
> > officers plan to march on police headquarters to register their strong
> > disapproval.
> >
> > Is this:
> > a. circular logic?
> > b. false causality? or
> > c. a serious semantic disconnect?
>
> Sounds to me like rational people pursuing their self-interest, exactly
> as we should expect them to do. The only fallacy is committed by those
> who expect public officers to act in the public's interest just because
> some piece of paper says they should.
Ah, but they swear to 'protect and serve', don't they? If they are our
servants they should do what we dam# well tell them to do. They get
those nice pensions, benefits, etc that a private police officer could
only hope for. Heck, even old Cal Coolidge, probably the most
libertarian president of the century, said,"nobody has a right to strike
against the publics safety" when he broke the Bostom Police Strike back
when he was in local politics...
Mike Lorrey
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