shiv sastry wrote [at 07:55 AM 9/10/2007] :
Udhay can you educate me on how voting with your feet or taking them to a
court in India can help if a Credit Card company employee spends Rs 100,000
on your credit card account and you get a bill 3 weeks later?
Two things, which are interconnected:
1. There is a legal limit to my liability if my card is fraudulently
misused. I can have the transaction reversed. Yes, I have to trust
the legal and the police system for this. I will say more on this below.
2. A credit card issuer who does not help me rectify a situation like
this is facing a PR disaster - again, like Amit said, a consequence
of competition.
You will then have to file an FIR and trust the very same police whom you are
now assuming are dishonest and demanding they they not be trusted with your
precious details.
You're misunderstanding my point.
I do not believe an average policeman is more dishonest than an
average human. I believe that an average policeman is *exactly* as
greedy and venal as an average human. Furthermore, since the average
policeman is in a monopoly position [1] - they need to be held to a
higher standard of accountability [2] than the average human.
This discussion is about accountability. *Not* about dishonesty, and
*not about stupidity.
Udhay
[1] not to get all Randroid here, but what, after all, is a police
force, if not a monopoly on the use of force?
[2] It is true that this makes a policeman's job more difficult. But
as Orson Welles said, only in a police state is a policeman's job easy.
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