NationStates Jolt Archive


Police Want More Than Shiny Badge - Rubbish issue!

Hendon
09-05-2006, 10:38
How do these crappy issues get through into the game? It's either arm the police with weapons, arm the police with even bigger weapons or ban the police completely. Where's the compromise??? What a crappy issue of the day.


Police Want More Than Shiny Badge
Government Acts
The Issue

After a policeman was forced to apprehend a criminal with nothing more than his groceries, there has been an outcry for better equipment.
The Debate

1. "It's outrageous," says Chief Constable Elizabeth Dredd. "This horrible situation could have been sorted out a lot faster if we had had the right equipment! Even the poorest criminals can buy better arms than us! We need more funds - if we have to take a bit of cash off the education and healthcare budgets to pay for it all then so be it!"
[Accept]

2. "I agree with my friend here," says zealous lance-corporal Freddy Mistletoe. "But lets go further. Let's create a new anti-crime group with special training and expensive - er - extensive new equipment! That would make the criminals think twice before breaking the law! Especially if our new forces can shoot miscreants at first sight with out messing around with time-consuming trials."
[Accept]

3. "Hey, hey!" cries anti-gun protester, Colin Wall. "You can't be serious! Weapons kill! Everyone knows that if there were no weapons there'd be no criminals; and if there are no criminals, we won't need to waste valuable government funds on the police! In fact, I say we should go as far as doing away with them altogether! I don't see them doing anything useful anyway, except try to stop our demonstrations! Ban guns! Ban the police! Live for a better tomorrow!"
[Accept]

The Government Position

The government is preparing to dismiss this issue.
Heron-Marked Warriors
09-05-2006, 10:40
How do these crappy issues get through into the game? It's either arm the police with weapons, arm the police with even bigger weapons or ban the police completely. Where's the compromise???

Dude, it's a game. There is no compromise. It's supposed to be like that.
Kanabia
09-05-2006, 10:41
The compromise is the "dismiss" button.
Straughn
09-05-2006, 10:45
Well, give them many to choose from.
http://i.b5z.net/i/u/586639/i/rotating-badge-home-page.gif
Szanth
09-05-2006, 10:45
Yar, dismiss it like so much Whitney Houston after she gets the crap kicked out of her by Bobby Brown. Again.
Strobovia
09-05-2006, 10:56
The compromise is the "dismiss" button.
I'd agree... I use that one a lot.
Lunatic Goofballs
09-05-2006, 10:58
Dismiss-o-rama!
X Fayne x
09-05-2006, 13:23
I personally love shiny things =P like Chrome... or Aluminum(spelling) Foil :p
Corneliu
09-05-2006, 14:00
2. "I agree with my friend here," says zealous lance-corporal Freddy Mistletoe. "But lets go further. Let's create a new anti-crime group with special training and expensive - er - extensive new equipment! That would make the criminals think twice before breaking the law! Especially if our new forces can shoot miscreants at first sight with out messing around with time-consuming trials."
[Accept]

This is the one I love. I always select this one :D
Swilatia
09-05-2006, 14:22
Wrong Forum!
Dissonant Cognition
09-05-2006, 22:44
Where's the compromise???

The fact that this question is asked demonstrates how incredibly realistic the issues, and NationStates itself, can be. Having studied political science at the university for nearly a year now, I've lost count of how many time I have tossed a textbook away in disgust and screamed at the ceiling: "Where's the compromise!?!?!?!" :headbang:

If only real life came with a "dismiss" option...
Corneliu
09-05-2006, 22:46
The fact that this question is asked demonstrates how incredibly realistic the issues, and NationStates itself, can be. Having studied political science at the university for nearly a year now, I've lost count of how many time I have tossed a textbook away in disgust and screamed at the ceiling: "Where's the compromise!?!?!?!" :headbang:

If only real life came with a "dismiss" option...

I agree with you 100%