Quote Originally Posted by Divinus Arma View Post
Glad to see law enforcement has a public service attitude on this one.

This guy gets called to a cat in a tree and he shoots the cat to get it out.

Law enforcement has a duty to protect property. If this were his mother's house or his own, would he have done the same thing? As public servants we must always follow the "my family" rule. Would I treat my family the same way? What if one of my family were in that burning building? What if one of my family was pulled over for speeding?
We don't live in a perfect world and not all choices have a clear good and bad. Sometimes, the best choice will result in doing implicit harm to others. The thing is you can't follow the "my family" rule as public servants and still expect to make tought decisions of any kind.

Lets say it was WWII, and you are a congressman. Would you want the US to enter the war after Pearl Harbor if hypothetically you had a family in Germany that had no connections with the Nazi Regime, but may be all killed due to civilian casualties from bombings??? Using the welfare of one person or small group to justify the punishment of everyone else can never work.