Stupid Cop

[CO Hummer]

Originally Posted by PARAGON

I'm not sure why you have such disdain for civil service. You turn the fact that someone that volunteers for crappy pay on job where they are highly likely to get killed by the scum of our society would be somehow less than the same if said person was forced into that same job.

The very fact that these individual DO volunteer to do this should garner a little respect and I can't fathom why it's such a stretch to do so.

If you think I have a disdain for civil service, then you haven't been reading what I've written. This sounds like an emotional response to my posts. Whether I "care about" or "disdain" civil servants is completely irrelavant to the discussion. The fact that a person is NOT required to do the job means a lot. He can be admired, and respected. But it is not a requirement, nor does anyone inherently "deserve" respect. To determine whether someone "deserves" respect is based on ethics. You can't arbitrarily blend ethics into the discussion.

I do, in fact, respect those officers that take the position to truly serve the public. For those that don't (ie. just treating it as a job, and nothing more) I simply have no extra respect or disrespect.