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Conceptually, does it make sense to create a job that… 1. Adjudicates petty disputes between, say, bird watchers and dog walkers. 2. Enforces social rules about, for instance, bad checks. 3. Forcibly locks up people for behavior that is dangerous to others.
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4. Forcibly locks up people for behavior that is dangerous only to themselves. 5. Walks around society armed. 6. Has a collective culture that is macho AF. 7. Enforces social rules about domestic violence.
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8. Is authorized to respond to resistance by escalating force. 9. Has looser rules around using deadly force than the rest of society. 10. Has a collective code that means that, despite 3 & 9, will never forcibly lock up one another for violent or deadly behavior.
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11. Monitors, corrals, and physically attacks public protest. 12. Is permitted to exercise power 11 even when the subject of protest is their own power.
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13. Calibrates the exercise violence around powers 1, 2, 3, 4, 8, 11 around the race and economic status of the persons involved. ?