If there were no police, how would you conduct yourself?
Often on the diverse board of human (sub?)thought that is YA! someone posits the question "Are the police really nessecary?" in some form or another. The reply is generally overwhelmingly resoundingly "without police all your sister would be raped and all of your possesions would be stolen by sunrise" or some variation of that theme.
So for arguments sake, lets say that there was no announcement of widespread PD closure or anything, but today you didnt see a single cop. Or the next day, or all month. At what point would you decide "well the cops aint gonna get me, Im gonna go rape Peggy Sue (that tight little piece of a$$ you've been lusting after) kill her dog and take all of her stuff?
Or would you behave like a rational, decent human being? Why do you trust that others wouldnt?
One could well say "well I know others wouldn't because there are rapes now, and we have cops"
Okay, let us examine this. What happens when a rape, burglery or violent crime is commited? The victim is, well, victimized and then calls the police, who may or may not bring 'justice' at some point in the future. But they seldom "stop" any crime. They are by their very nature a reactionary force. So then how should we prevent crime?
With a .45 I contend. Why rely on someone else to protect you and your loved ones, when you could do a much better job yourself?
But the police are preventative by theur preasence you say. I contend that they are not. Or at least not very efficently, after all there is crime today, and we have police. Is it not true that love and character are the strongest deturrent to crime. How does one foster love and character? This is a complex question, but I humbly submit that it starts in the family, and that imprisoning generations (our incarceration rate is atrocious in global comparison) of young men mostly for drug (non)crimes, and forcing their children to grow up fatherless is counterproductive to our goal of a stable, peaceful society.
In light of all this, why are police needed? To write traffic tickets? Do you need to be policed to prevent yourself from sinning against man?
And yes wawhoomp, I know Im a stupid, immature, dope-fiend kid.
Im also certain there are numerous gramatical errors in my question, so could we please look beyond that, to the idea.
@ The patriotic canadian:
Why not trust me and my .45, but trust a cop and his 9? there is no real difference. Im saying you should trust yourself, to stop me, be self reliant, ya know.
@FUM if you want to go to that length to protect your family, I would not begrude you the right. It would certainly be more effective (and probably cheaper) than the elaborate LEO method you have now implemented.
@MEV: The natural laws of decency and accounting to the community would prevail, just as they do now. We live in a fundamentally anarchocapitalistic world. The government is just a (expensive, bloated, corrupt ineffective) tool for dealing with this reality.
@ Josh. I agree people need more training to safely handle weapons. I think basic weapons handling should be part of middleschool and highschool curriculum. But 1000s of years of society hasnt shown us this. We have only tried this big government police state thingfor about 100 years or so. I think however we might revert to wanting bigbrother to save us in time, for the same reasons that led us here in the first place. But those reasons are not reason.