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Originally Posted by Ricardo900
In actuality, civilians follow and obey the Law, it doesn't matter who is enforcing it, whether it be a Cop, Meter-Maid, or Crossing Guard
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Civilians follow and obey the law because there are enforcer who will enforce such law on behalf of the state.
I will quote Prof. Mora from UConn. One comment he made a few years ago was this: "What makes you stop when you see a stop sign? Is it the sign itself that has the authority to make you obey it? Is it the police who enforce such law?
What makes you stop is the fact that the state apparatus has enforcers who will make sure you do stop at a stop sign. If enforcement was minimal or none existent, an entire culture of disobeying laws develops and under such circumstances, a stop sign become little else than a simple decoration on a street corner."
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Originally Posted by Ricardo900
and if I called the authorities and tell them that my neighbor's music is too loud, they will follow my request and confront the neighbor, so who's obeying who?
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Between your neighbor and the police officer, the neighbor will be subject to the police officer.
Between you and the police officer, the police officer will be subject to your right of peace and quiet on your private property. However, the police officer is simply following his duty as a cop, which is to "serve and protect the public".
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Originally Posted by Ricardo900
Teacher or Student? Well, you can look at it as the teacher being employed by the student to teach, via tuition. Without the student paying his tuituion, the teacher will be unemployed.
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So the student controls the classroom?
Who imposes the rules of conduct in the classroom, the teacher or his students?
-NALs