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I am writing a paper for my criminal justice class and the topic given was whether I was an individual rights or public order advocate. I'm on the fence because I believe individual rights are important, yet I can see when being a public order advocate is also important (preventing 9/11, oklahoma city etc). I'm 50-50 at the moment. for this particular paper we have to be one or the other. what are your views?
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great quotes, thanks. I'm surprised no one else has mentioned anything. After all with so much going on in government and potential losses of freedom, I figured there would be more opinions on this.
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I am writing a paper for my criminal justice class and the topic given was whether I was an individual rights or public order advocate. I'm on the fence because I believe individual rights are important, yet I can see when being a public order advocate is also important (preventing 9/11, oklahoma city etc). I'm 50-50 at the moment. for this particular paper we have to be one or the other. what are your views?
Individual rights..
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I am writing a paper for my criminal justice class and the topic given was whether I was an individual rights or public order advocate. I'm on the fence because I believe individual rights are important, yet I can see when being a public order advocate is also important (preventing 9/11, oklahoma city etc). I'm 50-50 at the moment. for this particular paper we have to be one or the other. what are your views?
You have the correct answer. There's is a balancing of competing interests. We want to maximize individual life, liberty and property while retaining for the society equity, fairness, health and safety, etc.
Judging by your answer on the cop forum, I'd say you are left with the choice of anarchy v. dictatorship. Here's some shit from a decent website that can help:
1. Simple systems require less organization.
2. Organized groups grow naturally from anarchic individuals.
3. Teamwork is superior to isolated effort or hermitism.
4. Anarchy is actually organized by game theory and chaos theory.
5. A strategy is needed for every organization.
6. The larger the organization, the more its leader loses direct control and knowledge over it.
7. Democratic organization is better than dictatorial organization.
8. Self-interest and freedom should always coincide with the common interest, and be prevented when it does not.
http://www.huppi.com/kangaroo/L-spectrumtwo.htm
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It is a balancing act, but if you have to pick one or the other, I say "public order." Public order is what allows the individual to prosper. We can never have a successful, productive society if every individual is permitted to do whatever he or she wants. Just look at what happened in New Orleans after Katrina. Total anarchy. Even the cops became criminals. No society can survive in that kind of environment.
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It is a balancing act, but if you have to pick one or the other, I say "public order."
What a shocker.
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What a shocker.
Yeah. Who cares about law and order. Kill, rape, pillage, plunder.
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Yeah. Who cares about law and order. Kill, rape, pillage, plunder.
hahaha wtf? I don't think those are the liberties we're talking about ::)
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hahaha wtf? I don't think those are the liberties we're talking about ::)
This thread cements my opinion of Beach Bum. He is indeed a fool.
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Sometimes I think about explaining things like this to BB but I enjoy it when he expresses his stupid ass opinion. It's fucking funny.
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Without rules individual rights cease to exist except for the very wealthy.
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hahaha wtf? I don't think those are the liberties we're talking about ::)
Who is "we"? And what liberties are you talking about?
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Without rules individual rights cease to exist except for the very wealthy.
Pretty much true. It's the "public order" that allows people to express themselves, etc.
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Gotta start somewhere...u have to have a solid base before u can start welfare programs and crucifixes in jars of piss. I find myslef agreeing with Decker and BB.
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Yeah. Who cares about law and order. Kill, rape, pillage, plunder.
So for you, indvidual rights is synonymous with behaving like a sociopath?
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So for you, indvidual rights is synonymous with behaving like a sociopath?
that's what he said.
Personally, I see the possibility of having individual rights and following the law, but that's just me.
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that's what he said.
Personally, I see the possibility of having individual rights and following the law, but that's just me.
I'd like to believe most people that advocate Individual Rights understand the responsibilites that come with it and the need to respect other people's individuals rights.
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Gotta start somewhere...u have to have a solid base before u can start welfare programs and crucifixes in jars of piss. I find myslef agreeing with Decker and BB.
Smart man. :)
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So for you, indvidual rights is synonymous with behaving like a sociopath?
What? No. ::)
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What? No. ::)
Who is on first. What is on second.
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Gotta start somewhere...u have to have a solid base before u can start welfare programs and crucifixes in jars of piss. I find myslef agreeing with Decker and BB.
This is in intervention....... put down the koolade and slowly back away.
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personally i feel that we at times need to be able to give up certain freedoms for the greater good. However, Once you give something up, especially to the government, good luck ever getting it back.
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personally i feel that we at times need to be able to give up certain freedoms for the greater good. However, Once you give something up, especially to the government, good luck ever getting it back.
Exactly. Also, there are plenty of instances where public order can put individuals into a criminal catagory even if they arent doing anything harmful to anyone.
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it is very hard to get the same people that take your liberties away to then be responsible to monitor them correctly.
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it is very hard to get the same people that take your liberties away to then be responsible to monitor them correctly.
Good Point.
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In order to exercise your individual rights without being killed, silenced, ostracized or intimdated for doing so- You need a system of public order. Ideally, the constitution and our laws allow this. Without them, I can react to your individual right to express yourself, by exercising my individual right to stab you to death and set your house on fire. Or, I could react by firing you from your job, etc. Of course, nothing is absolute and the system can temper individual rights. This is necessary as well.
I believe that the "system" should be invoked only when necessary. In general, overreliance on the system is a bad thing. I'd probably arrange it 60%- 70% individual, 30%-40% system of public order.
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It's a no brainer. Individual rights.
In my opinion "public order" is just another term for left and right-wing fascism.
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In order to exercise your individual rights without being killed, silenced, ostracized or intimdated for doing so- You need a system of public order. Ideally, the constitution and our laws allow this. Without them, I can react to your individual right to express yourself, by exercising my individual right to stab you to death and set your house on fire. Or, I could react by firing you from your job, etc. Of course, nothing is absolute and the system can temper individual rights. This is necessary as well.
I believe that the "system" should be invoked only when necessary. In general, overreliance on the system is a bad thing. I'd probably arrange it 60%- 70% individual, 30%-40% system of public order.
Thats the thing. Individual Rights doesn't mean you can do WHATEVER you want. As I already mentioned those rights come with responsibilities and respect for other peoples rights.
I don't believe it's laws that outline public order that stop individuals from behaving like animals as much as it's a natural understanding that it's wrong to do so, more than anything. The overwhelming majority of people just want to be left alone and leave others alone. Groups that push public order tend to creat conflict between other groups, not order.
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Individual Rights are everything.
Public order is just code for "Deterrent to Individual Rights".
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Individual Rights are everything.
Public order is just code for "Deterrent to Individual Rights".
LOL @ the "artist formerly known as Ron Paul Fan".
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Thats the thing. Individual Rights doesn't mean you can do WHATEVER you want. As I already mentioned those rights come with responsibilities and respect for other peoples rights.
I don't believe it's laws that outline public order that stop individuals from behaving like animals as much as it's a natural understanding that it's wrong to do so, more than anything. The overwhelming majority of people just want to be left alone and leave others alone. Groups that push public order tend to creat conflict between other groups, not order.
The founders of this country knew, and even said, that our constitution will only work for moral people so that there is not the need to have excessive control over two legged animals like those in Oakland, CA.
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LOL @ the "artist formerly known as Ron Paul Fan".
HAHA ;D
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In order to exercise your individual rights without being killed, silenced, ostracized or intimdated for doing so- You need a system of public order. Ideally, the constitution and our laws allow this. Without them, I can react to your individual right to express yourself, by exercising my individual right to stab you to death and set your house on fire. Or, I could react by firing you from your job, etc. Of course, nothing is absolute and the system can temper individual rights. This is necessary as well.
I believe that the "system" should be invoked only when necessary. In general, overreliance on the system is a bad thing. I'd probably arrange it 60%- 70% individual, 30%-40% system of public order.
Well said George. I completely agree with this.