Police officers must shoot to kill

==Definitions== I define Police Officers as a warranted employee of a public police force. This is distinct from private security guards and citizens acting in self defense. ==Analysis == Pro's case implicitly assumes the value of PRAGMATISM. Pragmatism is not an end in itself. We need another weighing standard. Con chooses the value of Libertarian Justice, defined as the respect for self ownership and homesteading rights. Self ownership is a prerequisite of morality, because morals must be chosen, not forced. The universal self ownership of libertarian justice allows for maximal individual flourishing. Homesteading rights are merely an extension of self ownership. They have historically manifested themselves as "property rights", but the CON by no means endorses molecular or cardinal theories of ownership. Homesteading will be clarified further if necessary... ============ Pro Contentions ============ 1) Fine 2) Fine 3) Fine Pro simply says its pragmatic for the police officer to shoot2kill. Pragmatism is not an end in itself, particularly not the pragmatism of one individual. Even if it were, there is no reason to consider the resolution only from the point of one hypothetical police officer. So for many reasons, we need to broaden the analysis! ================================ Con Case – Most Police Officers Should Die ================================ Not the well meaning ones... but its a shame that they are public police. They should quit and do private work. I don't want to hear a bunch of crap about how someone's uncle is a dedicated public servant who's got three bullet wounds and lost his partner the day before retirement. A) Police Attack Innocent People Nearly ï¿½ of federal prisoners are serving time for non-violent offenses[1]. Federal law may say these men are guilty, but possession of minor drugs is no justification for incarceration. People smoking weed are within their libertarian rights and should not be threatened or attacked in any way. Given that 42.0% of Americans have tried marijuana, a large minority are potential targets of the mass kidnapping otherwise known as the "Drug War" [2]. The police who fight this holy crusade against teenagers and hippies are tearing civilization apart. A LEO trying to arrest peaceful and harmless drug users has no business killing anybody. The innocent people who he is attacking have every right to defend themselves. He has no right to apprehend them in the first place, much less a right to murder them. This logic can be extended beyond the drug war to any time police attack innocent people, whether it is in upholding barbaric "laws" against peaceful citizens, or a mistake, etc. The drug war is just an illustrative example. B) Police Protect Real Criminals The US government manages to confiscate more than 36% of national income [3]. M-W defines theft as "the felonious taking and removing of personal property with intent to deprive the rightful owner of it". I guess taxation is theft... Burglary and muggings were responsible for less than .04% of total theft in the United States [4]. Its clear that the real threat to our liberty comes from Washington. Bla bla bla radical libertarian nonsense. Let's get some leftists on board with some more obvious topics. The US federal government is responsible for the deaths of 500,000 children who died in Iraq due to economic sanctions following "Gulf War I: Next Time, Its Personal" [5]. There is a very long list of illegal and immoral things the US government has done. Police protect this criminal organization. They are accessories to crime. As such, police defending the state forfeit any rights to self defense or use of deadly force. C) Police Shouldn't be Invincible Even the most naï¿½ve advocate of the status quo admits that some police should go to jail. In order to force someone to go to jail, you have to threaten them with deadly force. A guilty police officer should not have the right to shoot at Just Apprehenders. [1] http://www.sentencingproject.org... [2] http://www.time.com... [3] http://en.wikipedia.org... [4] You have to do math... http://www.ncvc.org... [5]http://en.wikipedia.org...