I never said it was fair. It is, however practical and often necessary with officers. As someone else pointed out it's not so much a matter of prejudging them as it is a matter of taking precautions to protect yourself.
Let's put this another way: Imagine you're in an area where open carry is legal and you see a man covered head to toe in tattoos, including some that have shown up in TV dramas as depictions of gang tattoos, and wearing a wife beater with a gun on his hip. I'd venture a guess that you'd go out of your way to avoid this person. You're right that prejudging people is wrong, but there is a difference between thinking that all officers are bad and taking the protections afforded to you just in case the one who just stopped you is. Just like there would be a difference between assuming the man in the example above is a criminal and going out of your way to not irritate him. What it boils down to is this: the law gives us certain rights to protect ourselves. Contrary to popular belief, these protections are there to protect the innocent, not the guilty. If you choose not to use that right to protect yourself, fine, whatever. To me that's kinda like cutting in line at the checkout counter in front of that guy in my example above. -----Original Message----- From: Scott Stroz [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, September 20, 2010 9:53 AM To: cf-community Subject: Re: US Man refuses to answer Immigration questions.Apparently, he was right. Kris, slice it any way you want, justify it any way you want. you are still judging an entire group of people based on the words and actions of a few. If its wrong to do that for one group, its wrong to do it for all groups. I will try one more example. I recently had a discussion about those who 'cheat' the system, in terms of welfare, medicaid, etc. I think it is safe to assume that there are as many people in each town who 'cheat the system' as their are 'bad cops'. Would it be fair to automatically assume that all people on welfare are cheating the system until proven otherwise? No, it wouldn't. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:327499 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
