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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Are the American police out of control?

« on: June 15, 2020, 02:50:02 AM »

Are the police out of control?  There are some 18,000 police agencies in the USA employing some 1,100,000 officers.  Those 1 million officers would collectively work some 2 Billion hours a year.  I suppose a better question might be what would be a reasonable expectation of a performance that would be expected from a workforce of composed of human beings over 2 billion hours of work?  Another way to look at it would be how many poor decisions-bad days etc. might you have in a 1 million year career as a police officer while being continually recorded by video cameras!
This is the verdict, the population of the united states doesn't have the right to a level of police conduct that exceeds a human beings ability to deliver it.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Is God possible?

« on: June 15, 2020, 02:36:14 AM »

Good question.  Yet lets ask the question in a different way.

"Is there any known thing that exists that is observable and quantifiable which is patently inexplicable?"

As an extreme example, what if you dumped out a bucket of 5,000 marbles accidentally and when they came to rest they formed a perfect smiley face along with your name and birthday spelled out!

Such an example will expose a persons convenient disinterest in the difference between accidental, incidental, coincidental, anecdotal, improbable, implausible and impossible.