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Originally Posted by Gillianren
I like the police, personally.
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All of them?
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It's their job to stand between me and anarchy, and I dislike even the thought of anarchy and would not do very well when caught up in the real thing.
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You know, anarchy could work, but it would depend on massive individual commitments to be real with everybody else.
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This makes me seemingly unusual for graduates of my alma mater--everyone always forgets the older students and only remembers the young, stupid ones
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Huh?
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but I remember, if no one else does, that Ted Bundy hunted our campus at least once,
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That's an interesting choice of words: so ordinary deer hunters are engaged in the same activity as Ted Bundy.
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and it was police who caught him. And on routine traffic stops two of the three times, at that.
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Yeah, but way too late--and think about the fact that there might have been another routine traffic stop that could have got him sooner, but didn't because the cop who might have got him was busy instead on another call by someone whining about their noisy neighbors instead of about serial killers.
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The reason it is better to call a cop than handle it yourself is that a cop is an authority figure, and that has a tendency (unless you're dealing with stupid Greeners) to defuse the situation. Your neighbour who has no compunctions about hitting you for interfering with his beating up his wife will probably react differently to the cop.
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That's a good point: you can try to beat up your neighbor and you will probably succeed; but you can never beat up the cops and come out on top.
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Further, I don't really think that shouting matches can generally be resolved by skillful diplomacy. I think that, by the time it's elevated to shouting, most people have stopped listening anyway.
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Think about what you just said: you just said that nonviolent shouting requires a violent response--mediated by the police, albeit, but it remains a violent response nevertheless.