[Peace-discuss] society-by-proxy was Re: Non-interaction with Champaign police

[Karen Medina]

Wayne wrote: > The whole Society-by-Proxy thing rubs me the wrong way.

Vigilantism does not appeal to me, if that is what you are proposing.
Knee-jerk reactionaries tend to be the ones that respond, and the
public has no way of criticizing the vigilantes.

-karen medina

On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 11:41 PM, E. Wayne Johnson <ewj at pigs.ag> wrote:
> The whole Society-by-Proxy thing rubs me the wrong way.
>
> Doesn't it occur to anyone that it's pretty damn strange that the police
> power
> is invoked rather than the people in the society communicating with each
> other?
>
> That there is this knee-jerk response to call the cops rather than manage
> the problem
> directly and locally is incredibly strange to me.
>
> But then again...uh...