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Originally Posted by JamMak
Edit: Practically speaking. As in, if all those despised police officers went on holiday, or to hell, or became goat herders.
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Quite obviously, if all the police suddenly disappeared overnight society would objectively be a worse place to be in the next day (well, for most people - if you're someone about to be arresed then probably not). However, this is completely irrelevent as no-one (as far as I am aware) is calling for an immediate disbandment of the police.
Similarly it is quite possible to be opposed to the idea of the welfare state (or a number of other things - say heroin, the stock market, banking systems, etc) but to still realise that an overnight withdrawl would be totally disastrous.
Besides, it's easy to imagine a different
kind of police (or law enforcement body) - the type of police force we have now has hardly been with us for all of time.