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Why is it if you insult them you get arrseted, but if they call you a nob and a moron its all fine?
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It depends largely on what you were doing to warrant such comments though. One policeman I know says that he always swears at drunk people because they seem to understand it better.
You can get away with insulting the police, just don't swear at them or be aggressive.
Quit your whingeing and button your mouth next time. No sympathy at all.
Because if you insult them you are a moronic nob.
This is a joke, right?
Not from what I've seen.
Man of kent, no I'm not joking.
Quarfly, you cannot "see" what they represent, their behaviour sometimes is not as good as it should be.
Yep. It's still factually accurate though, which, as I said, is all I look for.
If people can't see the value of the facts when talking to or about the people who claim to be the government, that's their problem.
Or hear it, or feel it, or smell it, or taste it. As things that you can't sense don't exist, then they don't represent anything. See, easy. Facts mate.
You are wrong, agreements between people exist, even if they are "factually" wrong.
Then I think that you have a rather rosy view of what the Police really represent.
They represent that dark side of our community, they are there for those worst moments in life when you are a victim of crime. They do not offer hope. They offer enforcement and oppression.
Yes, I know. Lies sound better from someone like yourself.
Maybe there is an evolutionary need to stop being a community, to adapt.
No. An agreement has two parties, offer, acceptance etc. When one person doesn't agree their is no agreement. So if you are saying "society" is an ageement between all it's members and I don't agree, I can't be part of it. As I can't refuse, then it's not an agreement at all. It's a type of involuntary servitude.
It's the criminals who represent the dark side.
How can you be a victim if you are safe?
How can there be justice, when you are already suffering?
How can there be crime, if you are protected from it?
Nah, they're just part of it.
I think there are two evolutionary drives relevant to this issue. One makes people,and other animals, form groups for their narrow, us vs them, aims. The other seeks to expand the group and include others. Often the two drives are in conflict.
You are wrong, agreements between people exist, even if they are factually wrong.
I don't, not least because evolution is horseshit.
With humans, this is at the perceptual level. Racists perceive certain faces a certain way, others might disagree and see more similarities. I am so far the other way - i.e. all I see are individuals and differences that I am not racist either, because I perceive no "races" in the first place.
No not at all. By exist I mean in sensory, factual reality. The fact that most humans cannot distinguish between inside and outside their heads doesn't change facts. It's more or less a case of "acting as if". Which is brilliant, if you think about it, because it can be stopped or started at will.
NQA, of course.
Oh dear. The police only ever clean up afterwards. The chance of a policeman stopping a rape in progress is pointlessly small. The chance of some random passerby being a policeman is next to nil.
What the fuck do you think I mean? If you can hear it, see it, touch it, taste it or smell it, then it's there. this is why you have to construct symbols to fool people, like flags, anthems and so on. Also I assume you can make the distinction between what's internal experience and what's external.