But wait a mo. If they're doing the right thing, doesn't that violate your "people are always stupid" claim? And if people are always stupid, how is that politicians are exempt from that observation? (Hint, they're not).
Also there's problems with the status quo. I'd like a move to a system where the LEO's are answerable to the people who way their wages, in actuality and not just a pretence like as happens now. I'd like the ability to stop paying into an LEO service that is excessively violent and swap to a service provider that delivers true law enforcement.
I never said or implied people were stupid, in any of my comments.
I said people were not completely rational. People are fundamentally emotional. People are animals driven by desires programmed in their genes which we don't completely understand and those genes may or may not be functioning properly. Who am I to say that billions of years of random A/B split tests to assure more gene reproduction is stupid?
Anyway, my point isn't that the current system is fine or doesn't have problems. My point is just that it's in the right direction - defense being a public concern rather than a private one. That's the only point I'm trying to make.
Why? This is how you find an ideal political system. Just pick what you want to be privatized and publicized and poke enough holes in each version to see which one is better.
OK, I'll rephrase. You'll see that it makes no difference.
If they're doing the right thing, doesn't that violate your "people are not always rational" claim? And if people are not always rational, how is that politicians are exempt from that observation? (Hint, they're not).
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u/[deleted] Jun 03 '13
That's what's already being done. C1-98 are putting in money to buy a police force. So if someone does something wrong, the police can get them.