29th March 2004, 9:08 PM
Not someone's decision? Sure it is. If I, as a citizen, were to stop you, I'd get a frickin' prize or something, whereas you would get arrested. People WANT people to stop people from robbing places, with less than lethal force that is.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)