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In-RP, legal carrying of illegal goods? - Grumblesaur - 04-27-2009
Now what you have to understand is that cardamine is not a leisure drug - once you use it you're addicted, and have to have it; so by demanding the cargo, the police officer could have very well killed a man or woman.
In-RP, legal carrying of illegal goods? - Hawkwings - 04-27-2009
The way my police officer RPs it is that the higher-ups do not really care if a cardi-addict dies from withdrawal. Callous? Yes, quite. But it's very defensible in political arenas, and a perfectly tenable in-RP position.
In-RP, legal carrying of illegal goods? - Grumblesaur - 04-27-2009
' Wrote:The way my police officer RPs it is that the higher-ups do not really care if a cardi-addict dies from withdrawal. Callous? Yes, quite. But it's very defensible in political arenas, and a perfectly tenable in-RP position.
Every action, regardless of how small, has its repercussions.
If a Navy officer took an addict's cardamine and the addict died, someone who knew the addict could MOX-bomb Manhattan.
You never know. (I would...)
And aren't Police, Navy, and other lawfuls supposed to protect people, not cast them off to their doom?
In-RP, legal carrying of illegal goods? - Hawkwings - 04-27-2009
What if by stopping that cardi, the officer saved 3 people's lives, that when they got addicted by that person's small doses, couldn't get more? What if that 2 units of cardi that the addict needs get stolen from him when he gets mugged on the streets? And what if that mugger just happens to drop a cardi pill in the governor's drink? And what if the governor then turned into a cardi addict? And then what if? What if? What if?
You can't play the what-if game as law-enforcement. It's a favorite tactic of protesters, and in-RP it can be quite the effective torch. But law enforcement would not realistically take that view. After all, if they didn't stop a person's "personal" cardi, it sets up a dangerous precedent. What is the proper amount of cardi for someone to be let through with? Lots of dangerous territory there, it is much simpler and easier on the officers to just ban it completely.
Edit: as to your point on the lawfuls' purpose... Lawfuls are supposed to protect society as a whole, not individual people. Oftentimes, protecting individual people lines up with that goal of protecting society. But when it comes into comflict, it would be stupid to protect a single person as opposed to a large group of people.
In-RP, legal carrying of illegal goods? - JakeSG - 04-27-2009
I thought we were getting some kind of synthetic cardamine commodity, as a 'replacement drug' for those who were addicted?
Meh. Without backreading what has no doubt been flaming in this topic, all I can say is that people need to use common sense.