Authority is something one group habitually holds over another, weaker, group; this is true in the first instance, no matter what the stronger group in all moral justification wishes done with its authority.
With the police it needs to be understood that the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few; while the needs of the one don’t come into the equation at all, unless he also happens to be another victim of circumstance that they have to take care of.
There are laws that you don’t know about and that the police aren’t going to tell you about either before being arrested for breaking them. Which is something more to do with getting caught at it rather than justice.
Killing someone gets him out of the way, which is one reason why there’s a law against it, although not the main one.
It’s an amusement to think that the worst of the criminal classes could prove to be some sort of freedom fighters, but don’t often live long enough to prove it.
The police don’t make things up against you in court; they simply make exaggerated observations at your expense.
The police will happily leave a law abiding citizen alone, right up to the time they come up to him for a chat.
Talking to policemen tends to simplify things immensely; but then, what about that could be so interesting to them, for them to want you to admit to something?
Amongst the company of his colleagues, a policeman will insult you to your face only when he expects you to do something dynamically dramatic about it.
If you ever cop a criminal record—chill out—the next time won’t be so hard.
A criminal act becomes a criminal act when they make a law against it, to say nothing about it commonly being immoral as well.
If you don’t commit any crimes, chances are you won’t be locked up for it.
All laws have loopholes; they’re made specifically for lawyers to jump back and forth through, just for the exercise.
Those laws out there that restrict your freedoms are there to keep you under control, and it looks like you certainly need it too.
The law is not to do with fairness primarily, it is to do with authority; fairness is more to do with the laws of chance.
About Me
- Drew Byrne
- Basically, I am someone interested in quotations, those mainly being of an aphoristic form; consequently, I have collected many examples together over the years, ones which I most liked, warmed to, or appreciated. Although most of these I cannot really now recall without looking them up, and so I supppose are not of much use except as written ornaments to an inefficient memory, but so it goes. I am interested in archaeology, history, and antiques, although not as much as I once was. Philosophy, also, has interested me from time to time, although I never learned much about it. It has been said (although certainly not by me) that “in time, most men become philosophers, although not particularly good ones.” I can say without much hesitation that that I am one of these fellows.
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