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In reply to the discussion: The issue in the Minneapolis police shooting [View all]Lee-Lee
(6,324 posts)Your notion that "giving a small segment of the population the authority to use deadly force" is a problem ignores the fact that you must do that for government to exist and work.
Government, at its core, is force used to maintain order and carry out the tasks the people want it to. There is nothing, no task and no law, that government does that isn't, at the very base, backed up by those government representatives authorized to use force.
Taxation can't exist without penalties for noncompliance enforced by people authorized to use force. Nothing is funded without that.
You can't have zoning and building codes unless force is used to evict those who refuse to comply.
You can't have antitrust law without force being an option to shut down companies and force compliance.
You can't have minimum standards for what insurance companies provide without a mechanism to forcefully shut down those that don't meet the minimum.
Quite literally every time anyone has ever said "we need a law that says XXX" what they have really said is "we need to give a small segment of the population the authority to use deadly force to make sure people do XXX". From everything as bog as the rich paying their taxes to as small as prohibiting the sale of loose cigarettes, that is what every law is.
Because without that small segment of the population authorized to use force behind them laws are just suggestions.