Advanced Criminal Justice (Class 2), Period 2, 01.12.05

[bugofjustice.livejournal.com]

[OOC: Tuesday was fun. Please, no 300-comments today. Knock about 100 off that total, please? Otherwise, good work. If you have Homework or EC from Tuesday, you can drop it off below. One note about fiction in this class: You can know that when Tick talks about Looney Tunes or Disney, he is talking about a fictional cartoon. Tick's take on it - a take that isn't wrong - is that these cartoons aren't fictional, they're just historical records from another dimension. Question his view to him and he will look at you funny. Class Info Post.]

The Tick stood behind the podium at the front of the class as usual. On the podium was a small plastic figurine of an anthropomorphic, gray rabbit. Lockheed was perched on his regular bookshelf.

"Hello, class! For the next week, we will be focusing on one individual and his relationship with that cute girl next door that we call Justice. This individual's name? Mr. Bugs Bunny." Tick held up the figurine. There may have been a Six Flags logo at the base. "Those of you who had class with me last semester may recognize this rascally little rabbit. He was one of the offenders in the Hunting Season Lecture. He is a busy guy with a lot of enemies, so we have plenty of reasons to talk about him."

"Today we will focus on his relationship with a Mr. Yosemite Sam. While we have previously discussed Mr. Bunny's reckless and devious - if not precisely criminal - behavior, it is, up to a certain point, difficult to blame him for instigating anything with this varmint. Mr. Sam is, quite frankly, a vile human being, obsessed with his own personal gain and is willing to attempt to murder innocents in this pursuit. I haven't seen any accounts of him successfully murdering - or even successfully shooting - anyone, but he always leads with his guns whenever someone poses a threat. Mr. Bunny often poses a threat, usually due to sheer coincidence."

"As we've seen time and again, there are repeated murder attempts that Mr. Bunny refuses to report to the police. Perhaps he likes to get out of trouble on his own. Perhaps he finds being shot at exciting. Perhaps he actually wants to die, but he hasn't found someone capable of actually shooting him. I can't speak for Mr. Bunny. But I can say that Mr. Sam has it in for him, coming back time and again even after falls that should have killed him! All to threaten Mr. Bunny some more."

"My question to you, class, is if you came across a clash between Mr. Bunny and Mr. Sam, how would you deal with the situation? Some questions you should think about but not necessarily answer before you give your response folow: Do you let them sort it out themselves? Arrest one? Send one or both to a counsellor of some sort? And when would you interfere? Would you take the chance and get inbetween them? Or would you take another chance and count on Mr. Bunny outsmarting Mr. Sam once again, hoping that both survive and you can confront each individual while they are momentarily alone?"

"Discuss, class!"

Comments

Re: Talk

[cameronmitchell.livejournal.com]

"I'd call the police naturally. They might be trying to hurt each other, but they're still disrupting public order and they clearly mean to harm each other. It's not because both parties refuse to do the logical thing and report this matter, that it should be allowed to continue. Mr. Sam clearly deserves punishment for attempt at murder. While Mr. Bunny hasn't harmed anyone, he clearly needs help too. Getting him to a counsellor sounds like a good idea, although I'm thinking Mr. Sam could use a good session as well."

Yeah, he'd never be able to watch cartoons in quite the same way again.

Re: Talk

[auroryborealis.livejournal.com]

"But since the parties in question refuse to go to the police, how would you ensure that they were taken into custody? Don't you think they would just make further measures to evade the law?" Rory asked from the back. "Furthermore, are you suggesting court-appointed counseling? If they've refused up to this point, would counseling have an impact?"

Re: Talk

[cameronmitchell.livejournal.com]

"They're disrupting the peace, I'd say that's a start to getting them arrested. If they're both incapable of making a fair judgment in this situation, that just shows that they really need some therapy. So yeah, forced counseling isn't exactly ideal but neither is imprisoning someone who doesn't want to abide to the law. At least in the meantime they're somewhere where they can't harm anyone else, or even themselves, and if the counseling does help, then all the better." Cameron replied. He was gratefuly that Tick up until now hadn't brought up Itchy and Scratchy.