mangojuice
Active Member
dunno if there ever was a perfect society.... dunno if we are speaking of u.s. here or u.k. or oz or all of them combined. each one is different. each day is different. each person is different - even from one moment to the next. for some it is so obvious it has a label: a.d.d. for most it is not so obvious so we believe there is continuity. reality, however, has ups and downs both in a personal sense and in a societal sense. and within the greater ups and downs of a society there are the individual ups and downs.
actually "cop" or "police" or whatever, is only a noun. the individual the noun refers to will never fit the label perfectly because the referred to changes as the observer changes, as the light changes, as the barometric pressure changes, blood sugar, blood pressure, blood alcohol, moon, seasons.... and all that, our face changes, our world changes
we live by millions of laws every second - physical and societal - but are only aware of a few - sometimes the ones we knowingly break or the one thrust in our face is the only one we think about. what runs a society, imo, is not laws but a personal sense of ethics and shame. many of us live by the golden rule a lot of the time. most of us want to live in a just society. and because of that societies work. not because of the laws. a police officer is a mentality, not a person.... as such it is subject to change, like the rest of us.
actually "cop" or "police" or whatever, is only a noun. the individual the noun refers to will never fit the label perfectly because the referred to changes as the observer changes, as the light changes, as the barometric pressure changes, blood sugar, blood pressure, blood alcohol, moon, seasons.... and all that, our face changes, our world changes
we live by millions of laws every second - physical and societal - but are only aware of a few - sometimes the ones we knowingly break or the one thrust in our face is the only one we think about. what runs a society, imo, is not laws but a personal sense of ethics and shame. many of us live by the golden rule a lot of the time. most of us want to live in a just society. and because of that societies work. not because of the laws. a police officer is a mentality, not a person.... as such it is subject to change, like the rest of us.
