Comment by icebraining
12 years ago
And so I ask again, when did I agree to that, in an explicit or implicit way? And you yourself answered, "you didn't if you downloaded it without paying". So no, there isn't.
12 years ago
And so I ask again, when did I agree to that, in an explicit or implicit way? And you yourself answered, "you didn't if you downloaded it without paying". So no, there isn't.
When did you agree to let the police protect you if they encounter you being mugged?
Some things are just part of societal existence. You can't opt out of them any more than you can opt out of paying your taxes on profits you make.
When did you agree to let the police protect you if they encounter you being mugged?
That's a particularly poor example.
Supreme Court Justices Rule Police Do Not Have a Constitutional Duty to Protect
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/28/politics/28scotus.html
In case you can't get past the paywall (try googling the title and going from there), the summary is that a woman got a protective court order and then she called police and told them her husband had violated the court order. They did not act, and he killed her three kids.
If a court order with explicit instructions to arrest should it be violated isn't enough to move the police into action, simply encountering you isn't worth a hill of beans.