Is it Reasonable to expect Institutions to Honor their Commitments?
Any recruit who expects in good faith that the institution hold the terms of the enlistment contract will be exposed ..
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Training will be accelerated and upon graduation, the platoon will be deployed to the front lines. It is at this point that the recruits are told that anyone who does not feel ready for this can privately tell their senior drill instructor and will be processed out with an honorable discharge and full benefits. All of this, of course, is a lie. And any recruit who expects in good faith that the institution hold the terms of the enlistment contract it signed with him will be exposed to the platoon and shamed mercilessly as a coward who lacks the Marine Corps’s three core values of honor, courage, and commitment. While nobody in my platoon fell for this, I have always found it noteworthy that any recruits shamed in this way are the ones with the courage to ask the institution to honor its own commitment.
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QUESTIONS:
Are we conditioning people to expect that they can not call on their government to honor its commitments?
Does this disbelief extend to that the rights enshrined in the constitution, such as the 1st or 4th amendment?
How can we build broad support for the peaceful exercise of constitutional rights so that the public joins in demanding that the government honors our rights?
How can we enable the public to see through attempts to marginalize those who exercise rights by saying things such as
“Are you trying to be difficult?” “They are troublemakers.”
“Why don’t you just comply?”
“Where did you get your law degree?”
** list your own phrase here
What are some other areas where people rightly question government’s commitment to honor their commitments?
ELSEWHERE:
Copslaining is an interactional pattern where policing authority is used to override, minimize, or reframe someone’s account of police behavior, depriving the person of epistemic credibility and reducing accountability.