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Judge Dredd is an idealized version of law enforcement. He is never shown to abuse his authority in any way. The problem is Mega City one defines all human activity as a crime. The comics present a society with a near 100% unemployment rate and prohibitions against everything.
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Judge Dredd is an archonic nightmare. He represents the ultimate degeneration of law enforcement into pure violence. "Everything is illegal" is another way of stating "there is no such thing as the law". Dredd's statement is ironic and tragic.
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In other words, he is the perfect warlord. Nothing matters besides his ability to use force, and he can use that force against anyone he chooses, for any reason he chooses.
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anyway, my point isn't to analyze a dystopian fiction. my point is that real people don't behave in the way you have suggested. if law enforcement is fundamentally about behavior control, it has to be tuned to the way people really behave, and that includes the enforcers.
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I'm literally proposing we stop trying to control behavior, and instead relegate the "Warlord archetype" to something more akin to a gym teacher than somebody with actual authority.
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In a tribal society, a chief leads his warriors by being the most charismatic member of the tribe, they all have the same spears he does. He simply convinces them to direct their aggression away from the village. There is no need for coercion or hierarchy. Just direction.
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Many. Like, I've literally lost count of how many times I've read an ethnographer explaing that the chief has to convince the other warriors to do anything because he doesn't actually have any authority over them outside of individual respect.
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