7/22/16 - There is an ideological dichotomy amongst individuals in modern culture where one side tends to state that "cops are bad", and other that "criminals are bad" - holding to an underlying psychological prejudice to one side or the other. An easy settlement to the argument might go "Ha, ha! Obviously the criminals are the bad ones! They say that cops are bad because they are criminals!" The ideological presumption held in this statement is that the law was created flawless and accurate. A criminal is bad by definition. But what if a criminal is adhering to their own ethical standard, and sees nothing wrong in breaking the laws he is forced to break to preserve the integrity of his own will? Aladdin was poor and needed bread, and he is a Disney hero for stealing for himself and his monkey. In this case, the cops are the villains. Nobody should want to see poor Aladdin get jailed and starved for looking out for himself. Aladdin has to steal bread because it is not being given to him. While Aladdin willingly shares the bread he stole with other poor children, those who had the bread to begin with don't uphold the same standard of ethical integrity making a "criminal" of an innocent man. He isn't just "not guilty", he's innocent. Modern law does not recognize the reality. Philosophically, then, modern law can be shown to be incorrect. But, are all cops then trying to exploit this fundamental discrepancy in the format of the law? Are all cops bad? Some cops certainly hold the same sort of ethical standard for their selves in carrying out justice, genuinely aiming to protect and serve. But what if a citizen employs a cop to carry out justice against another citizen on a false premise? Certainly there are situations in which an individual can take advantage of the declared definition of the law to serve their own selfish desires. When the tattle-tales grew up, they only gained a more serious influence on the basis that they are now old. These people are "cops" who don't have any interest in the integrity of the law to uphold an ethical standard. They might yell at the cop to "Do his job!", and that's precisely what the cop would be doing - obeying a dead, unthinking order. What is the solution? A king or judge truly appointed by God for his obedience to the honesty and ethicality of a perfect mind? Like the cop with a heart-felt aim at preserving the ethical intentions of the law, a judge should reflect the incorruptible image of God. If this fails at all, law is not justice. How close are we to honesty and accuracy? If a tattle-tale or worse, a malevolent person were appointed, the law becomes a conspiracy. Take a mix of ideology which takes the law very seriously, such that breaking it and being convicted can ruin a person's life, and it being carried out by appointed tattle-tales who desired the positions of cop or judge, and you have a corrupt system that touts itself as a beacon of truth which it clearly is not. |