And if we are to have a group of people who can demand such obedience under threat of death, I feel like they ought to be required to have more training that the dude at Great Clips giving haircuts for $8.
One of the hallmarks of civil society is that we grant a monopoly on legal violence to the state by way of the police. However, that police power arises through democratic authorization by them being held accountable to the people by way of elected officials.
Should the police fail to abide by the instructions of their locality elected officials and the people they and the elected officials serve, then the social contract has failed and they become no more than thugs.
diiejso on August 31st, 2020 at 01:13 UTC »
And if we are to have a group of people who can demand such obedience under threat of death, I feel like they ought to be required to have more training that the dude at Great Clips giving haircuts for $8.
decitertiember on August 31st, 2020 at 01:24 UTC »
One of the hallmarks of civil society is that we grant a monopoly on legal violence to the state by way of the police. However, that police power arises through democratic authorization by them being held accountable to the people by way of elected officials.
Should the police fail to abide by the instructions of their locality elected officials and the people they and the elected officials serve, then the social contract has failed and they become no more than thugs.
ProblematicThoughts on August 31st, 2020 at 03:30 UTC »
It actually is a feature of a free society. The government has a monopoly on violence. That's the way societies work.