{"id":3096,"date":"2020-06-16T18:50:10","date_gmt":"2020-06-16T18:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2020\/06\/16\/another-reason-why-defunding-the-police-is-idiotic\/"},"modified":"2020-06-16T18:50:10","modified_gmt":"2020-06-16T18:50:10","slug":"another-reason-why-defunding-the-police-is-idiotic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2020\/06\/16\/another-reason-why-defunding-the-police-is-idiotic\/","title":{"rendered":"Another Reason Why Defunding the Police is Idiotic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">Government is by its very nature coercive. To be effective, it has to have the power to force people to do what they might not want to do, and to refrain from doing what they might want to do, such as drive drunk, loot, and rape. It follows straightaway that eliminating enforcement agencies eliminates government.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">In an ideal world in which everyone is an angel, there would be no need for government. But our wor<span class=\"text_exposed_show\">ld is not ideal and there is no reason to think it ever will be. Government is therefore a necessary evil as are the enforcement agencies without which government cannot exist.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"text_exposed_show\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">To think otherwise is to live in Cloud Cuckoo Land.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Government is by its very nature coercive. To be effective, it has to have the power to force people to do what they might not want to do, and to refrain from doing what they might want to do, such as drive drunk, loot, and rape. It follows straightaway that eliminating enforcement agencies eliminates government. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2020\/06\/16\/another-reason-why-defunding-the-police-is-idiotic\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Another Reason Why Defunding the Police is Idiotic&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,39,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime-and-punishment","category-human-predicament","category-social-and-political-philosophy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3096\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}