RB> To a certain extent, you really can't have personal ethics. The job of
 RB> the cop  is to physically - to the point of death - force people to
 RB> obey laws that  he/she doesn't necessarily agree with. For instance,
 RB> among a million other  reasons, how could I be a cop and endanger
 RB> people's lives for buying a bag of  pot? Many times, no one has
 RB> anything more than a pocket knife until the cops  show up with guns.
You are correct, you could not be a cop. You would not be able to enforce the
drug laws you would be sworn to enforce. Further, you would be fired when
they found out you smoked marijuana. In your particular case, you would be
correct, ethically, you could not be a cop. It is no surprise that the vast
majority of police officers have no ethical problem at all in enforcing the
drug laws. Those officers who do have a problem enforcing the drug laws are
probably users, and their careers will be very short.
Tom Rightmer - A Victims' Rights Advocate
... It's a dog-eat-dog world, don't wear MilkBone underwear.
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