No!
I could not muster a stronger no on this if I tried.
Would you just allow the crowd to burn cars and loot stores and homes?
I'm not thrilled with it either but if I were a store owner in Ferguson I would be for it. Solid maybe.
When did I say that? I said the government should not be able to set a curfew. Setting a curfew doesn't stop people from burning cars....
In other words, curfews are okay under circumstances of civil unrest
Should government be able to impose a curfew on adults?
I say no.Government is the servant of the people not the boss of the people. If a few bad apples are rioting and looting then get the police to arrest those individuals. Government has absolutely no business telling the people when they can and can't leave their homes.
Why? Is a five hour (midnight to 5AM) no looting period really that much of a help to your business? When the local gov't/police decide that to protect the folks and to preserve order requires keeping everyone locked down then they gain too much power.
Yes, anything that keeps the thugs off the streets and away from my precious bikini store.
It keeps everyone out of all the stores (and every other business) for the duration of the curfew yet allows the thugs to do their thing the rest of the day/night. Why not try the novel approach of stopping (using deadly force if required) the thugs/looters and leaving all others free to go about their business/pleasure activities?
Because the word animal wasn't used. It was the tone deaf use of the word ape.
Last I checked an ape was an animal... but just for you though...
Is there something wrong with labelling those acting uncivilized and wantonly destroying their society as an ape?
Why not try an experiment? Go to two groups of people rioting and acting civilized. One a mostly white group and another a mostly black group. See which one gets more mad at your use of the term.
If you can understand that, then no further explanation is needed. If you can't understand that, then no further explanation by me will aid you in doing so.
That is a fallacious appeal to emotion argument. I would also add that calling a group of black people an animal would be more upsetting than labelling a white group that... but that does not make the analogy wrong. A groups reaction does not dictate its merits. If you can't understand that then I am not sure I can help you further...
You have missed the point entirely. Words are entirely about emotion, particularly dealing with the emotions of those who are called those words. Your clinical view that an ape is an animal continues to miss my point. Yes an ape is an animal, so are human beings. But I reacted to Lizzie's use of the word ape. I've never seen or heard of an ape acting like these rioters, but I'm honest enough to acknowledge that there is a racial connotation to the word that could be applied.
As for needing your help, I'll just refer you to your own sig.
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