Is my life more valuable than yours because of my job ?

Question

The other day I heard on the radio about a woman who got life in prison for killing her husband, he was a cop. In 2003 my sisters fiance was shot and killed (innocent bystander) and the murderer is out of prison now. I guess my question is, Why is it if you kill a cop you get more time in jai, I respect the job they do and I personally could not do it but what makes there life so much more important than a average persons life. I mean if you kill anybody you should get the same punishment across the board, my job should not determine your punishment if you kill me. Should it ? Whats your Opinion ?

Answer 1

I'm sorry for your sister's loss. I don't agree with the fact that cops and agents lives are worth more than ours. I understand why this has come to be though.

In an ideal society you would not need police and the value of a life would be the same to everyone. Police and law enforcement are needed in non-ideal societies and act as an embodiment of the state itself. The state can tolerate abuses of citizens against citizens more than it can abuse against the state. That lack of tolerance is supposed to make it seem futile to even attempt challenging that authority.

When that authority is used correctly it can help maintain order just by having a presence sometimes. This illusion of order helps maintain the masses. It may seem oppressive, but it keeps most of us sheep safe.

Answer 2

I agree with you. I don't believe one persons life is more valuable than someone elses. I think the punishment should be the same if the crime is the same. In your example though, one was killed delliberately and the other death was more accidental, by that I mean your sisters fiance does not appear to have been the intended target. Some may feel that would justify a lighter sentence. Personally, I think if the person who killed your sisters fiance did so while commiting another crime then I would give the same punishment because the death would not have happened if that person had not been involved in criminal activity.

Answer 3

The main issue seems to be intent. The wife probably got this sentence due to premeditation whereas your sister' s fiance was not killed intentionally. Unfortunately there are two families grieving for lost loved ones.
It is widely accepted that if someone kills a cop that they have absolutely no regard for authority and thus would kill anyone any time. Thus the parties involved in sentencing this woman would have looked at her disregard for her husband's position.

Answer 4

I'm sorry, that is wrong I agree.

It has to do with respect for authority and how the only way they can control us is by acting like the enforcers of authority are the authority themselves and that we must respect these bozos more than other people because the represent the control over us that the government "should" have. The screwed up thing about it is that the government is all bought out by special interests and big business payoffs so who are we bowing to? the manufacturers of the products we pay too much for? The people who feel they should have more money than us just because they started out with more? Cops are just thugs with a license to carry guns and speed and throw their weight around and we're supposed to respect and value their lives ove other peoples. Not to mention people who are much more
virtuous in their daily lives? but they don't swagger around like they're hot **** so they're lives aren't worth as much?
That's a bunch of bullshit.

Answer 5

The answer to your question is that yes,certain jobs make you more valuable in society.
Certain jobs,which people have voluntarily chosen,gives them certain benefits because they have more responsibility placed on them than the average citizen.
A cop for example is responsible for the citizens within his community.To defend the people against crime.If a criminal is willing to kill a cop,a person in a position of authority.Then killing an average person is easy.
A cop, like a fireman or soldier,puts him or herself at greater risk than the average citizen.Therefore society itself determines that their life is more valuable.Because they bear the responsiblity of protecting others first and themselves second.

Answer 6

No, nobody's life is worth more than anyone elses. The reason that a person who murders a police officer gets a longer sentence is not becaus the cop's life is worth more, it is because the person attacked society, you me and everyone else, when he murdered the cop.

Answer 7

I'm so sorry to hear of your loss.

I agree. Murder is murder is murder.

But you see, the establishment is ran by a bunch of elitists who want you to think that there are different classes of people. These classes consists of:

Rulers, religious leaders. (societies ACTUAL parasites)

Itellectuals and Propagandists (nowadays known as professors and the media)

Merchants and other servant class (all to be tread upon and usurped for the unearned living of our "benevolent rulers")

Don't believe me? Read the Communist Manifesto.

Yes, ALL life is precious and the ONLY time anyone should ever take another life is in self-defense.

Shame his killer got out.

I hope good things for you.

nostate

Answer 8

I have heard that because peace officers are in harms way more than the ordinary citizen , is the reason for the law.

I do not understand 'hate laws murders". I one murders another, does it make the death more tragic if classified as a hate crime?

Sorry for your lose.

Answer 9

One life is no more valuable than another. A murder is a murder. Whether it is a policeman or an inner city person. The crime is the same.

Answer 10

Check the party affiliation of the judge that sentenced the murderer of your sister's fiance. I bet 10 to 1 he is a liberal. That's what liberals do best.