Trying to stop a disaster without law enforcement
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Trying to stop a disaster without law enforcement
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Re: Trying to stop a disaster without law enforcement
What is your point in presenting this surprisingly detailed and specific thought-experiment scenario? What is the philosophical question you're asking? Surely this question, whatever it is, is bigger than the very specific example situation you have described?WanderingGaze22 wrote: ↑August 18th, 2021, 2:38 am Please inform me on what you need clarification on.
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Re: Trying to stop a disaster without law enforcement
As written the answer is: it depends. Rules are correct in bland, broad categories. You're presenting the opposite, a detailed, complex, contradictory situation. Obviously a lawyer could argue cogently on either side. Likely either choice is acceptable.WanderingGaze22 wrote: ↑August 18th, 2021, 2:38 am Imagine a hostile situation occurs and a police perimeter is involved. Much of the protocol dictates to treat this with containment and try to get hostages out. The scenario is a supermarket being surrounded and the situation is there are people inside and nobody else but a person who seems highly suspicious, especially when they seem to by the reason no one is going out is responding to the police. All entries are inaccessible and there seems to not be a reason there is a hostage situation to begin with. The suspect is claiming that no one is coming out because of an unlikely problem like poison gas or the ground inside the market is unstable. Should this person comply with police requests and let them figure out the situation themselves knowing it would cause more casualties or should they try to risk their lives trying to prove they are right?
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Re: Trying to stop a disaster without law enforcement
My apologies, I was watching a movie on Netflix and it got me thinking about the recent police issues and how authorities respond to hostile situations. My question here is if there was no proof at all of a dangerous element such as a precarious sinkhole or a deadly gas save for your word, would you risk a gun fight and show everyone the truth or would you let possibly hundreds of people pay the price of knowing all by themselves? The movie is Blood Red Sky and the part that I refer to is near the end where the man in the cockpit is talking to the negotiator.Pattern-chaser wrote: What is your point in presenting this surprisingly detailed and specific thought-experiment scenario? What is the philosophical question you're asking? Surely this question, whatever it is, is bigger than the very specific example situation you have described?
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Re: Trying to stop a disaster without law enforcement
Your scenario is not at all clear.WanderingGaze22 wrote: ↑August 18th, 2021, 2:38 am Imagine a hostile situation occurs and a police perimeter is involved. Much of the protocol dictates to treat this with containment and try to get hostages out. The scenario is a supermarket being surrounded and the situation is there are people inside and nobody else but a person who seems highly suspicious, especially when they seem to by the reason no one is going out is responding to the police. All entries are inaccessible and there seems to not be a reason there is a hostage situation to begin with. The suspect is claiming that no one is coming out because of an unlikely problem like poison gas or the ground inside the market is unstable. Should this person comply with police requests and let them figure out the situation themselves knowing it would cause more casualties or should they try to risk their lives trying to prove they are right?
Please inform me on what you need clarification on.
You need be less vauge and state the actual situation, say, from the observers POV. Unless you state what the "unlikely" excuse is, it is not possible to say what should happen next.
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