infinityshock said:
there is no 'you' here...you dont know anything about what i do or dont do.
Replace "you" with "one", as I was using the general, hypothetical "you" to refer to a person who believes these things.
the laws and their enforcement...or selective enforcement... are not the same thing. just ask arnie...hes quite versed on that principle.
Sure, I could ask him, but then I still wouldn't know how you view the law. Do you no respect it at all? Do you only respect part of it? Is it the mere threat of violence (enFORCEment) that keeps you from breaking the law? Do you just not trust the government about anything, and are you typing from an underground bunker, in constant fear?
I'm curious.
If any of us are said to have normal lives, or even lives that appear normal, we all have to put some degree of trust in the government, trust in law. But maybe you don't have a normal life.
if you do any reading of history youll quickly find that as soon as any government achieves the 'trust' of the people they turn into a big-brother-esque dystopia.
south africa. china. india. haiti. libya. i could go on and on.
its only when the people...all of them...have their forearms firmly inserted into the rectum of the government to work them like a good little puppet that laws are enacted and followed.
So America doesn't trust the government?
Well, I suppose those "ethnic" neighborhoods where the police don't go because all trust has broken down is a prime example of that. Which leads to crimes like the one you mentioned.
So is this lack of trust a good thing or a bad thing? Is it preferable to have "police exclusion zones", or would you rather have access to emergency services if you needed them?