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Originally Posted by qgrande
I thought this thread was about socio-economic status.
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The poll is about socio-economic status, but the discussion has taken a slight twist in which we are dealing with various types of status a person belongs to, depending on the situation and relationship vis-a-vis others.
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Originally Posted by qgrande
What does a civilian obeying a police officer have to with socio-economic status?
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In the literal sense, nothing.
As an analogy, which is how I presented such example, its meant to show that people recognize different roles different people have in society and such differences are respected.
Anyone who says that he/she is on the same level as a police officer is fooling himself.
Insult a police officer on duty to see how he will react. The worst thing anyone could do is ignore a police officers orders, especially when he is wearing his uniform. The action of such police officer will clearly say: how dare anyone disobey a police officer in uniform.
Go ahead and do this to see what happens. Disobey a police officer in uniform to see what happens.
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Originally Posted by qgrande
Who do you think is considered to have higher social status if the police officer, the CEO and the conductor meet in the pub?
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The socio-economic status will go in decending order to the CEO, the police officer, and the conductor.
When the relationship between the police officer and the CEO changes (ie. the CEO caused an infraction which causes the police officer to enforce the law), at that moment in time the status (not socio-economical) goes to the Police officer. The police officer is in charge when he stops a CEO for speeding.
-NALs