More On Duty

It's a military perspective.

A matter of honor.

You take the oath and you serve.

That service could lead to you being sacrificed for your nation.

They don't state it directly, and they dance around it some, but it's the elephant in the room when you start in Basic.

You learn what your duty is and are expected to perform it.

If you fail to do so, it had better not be a willful refusal.  There have been soldiers hanged for shirking their duty.

So we hold in contempt any cop who shirks their duty to defend their community and then hides behind "there's no law that forces me to do it."

Fuck you Pig!

While there was no law forcing you to do it or legal consequences for failing, where is your honor?

Wait.  I know this one.  You don't have any.

I'm sick of these cases.

I'm composing a proposal for my congress creatures that will put the power of law behind such failures to perform their honorable duty.  To expressly create the relationship that doesn't exist by default according to The US Supreme Court.

"By taking this oath you agree..." to be held responsible for your failure to act.  I'm OK with the gallows for a coward who hides while children are being gunned down.  At the very least the refusal to act on the grounds of mere personal safety be grounds to lose their cushy pension.

Especially since, on the basis of the description of the coward's job at the school, it is reasonable for the community to have expected action from the coward, his supervisor and the rest of the department.  Action to protect their children rather than their own cowardly lives.

“A coward dies a thousand times before his death, but the valiant taste of death but once. It seems to me most strange that men should fear, seeing that death, a necessary end, will come when it will come.”

I hope this coward is tormented in his every waking moment.