roachboy

nice.

so bor: say i found your last post to be stupid, and you kinda obnoxious for both what you said and how you said it.
following your logic, i should be able to use a taser on you.
and to justify it, all i'd have to say is: in your last post, i think you were acting like an asshole. and your tone was disruptive.
and you'd be fine with that.

and nothing would change about it were i a kampus kop or just some guy on the street--because laws concerning the use of excessive force dont really apply if you find the guy at the receiving end of that force to be an asshole.

so it would follow that the police have a kind of taste enforcement function and if that function requires the use of tasers, then so be it.

but i am really not sure that i would want kampus kops--a problematic population--to be charged with taste enforcement.... i suspect it'd be hard to get anything done on campus for the sound of tasers going off more or less continually. but maybe that's why there are i-pods. "la la la i cant hear you..."

i'd rather kampus kops played by the rules. they may be in the main kind of pissy....they may not be very good....they may act as though they hate you because you are a student or a faculty person....but they have guns and tasers and loud uniforms, and i just feel a whle lot better if i can understand these very macho "security professionals" as constrained by some rules.

just saying...

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