I asked this because the ideah of chaos seems to make you dream of a forced evacuation (rapture) from earth
That's quite possibly the dumbest thing I have ever hearddid you forget events like 9/11?! How many firefighters and police officers died trying to save people?! AND there is a law saying if you are a trainned profesisonal you have a duty to act if you see certain things going on and fire/ems and police personnel are all responsible under that law
I don't know about the Police Department, but I do know this.My husband is a volunteer Firefighter and I can tell you that their first priority is human life, right after their own safety. If they deem a fire too dangerous to go into, they must obey certain rules and regulations of safety. Every department will tell you that, I don't care where you go. Those who disobey these safety regulations and enter, and then end up hurting themselves are seriously reprimanded. This is for every firefighterwhether they are full time or volunteer. My husband has a shirt, on it says.No one forces me to go into a burning building..I volunteer!! I can guarantee you this too, every firefighter has their own mind whether they risk getting reprimanded. Many have lost their own lives to save someone. I know in my heart, that my husband is one of them. And that makes me both proud and sad at the same time.
The fire department does rescue people if there's a fire, unless it's too dangerous for them to do so, and no, the police have no obligation to look for a missing person who is of age if there is no proof of foul play.
Absolutely for. First off, colonizing Mars will force scientists, engineers, and businesses to devise altogether new and better ways of doing things, fostering economic growth over the long run. Second, our resources on Earth are not infinite. At some point, continued development will necessitate human civilization expanding to space. Seeing as how it's inevitable, and how terraforming will likely take generations, why not find out a way to get started now on the cheap? I'd venture to guess that the boys at NASA, acting in concert with international space agencies, could come up with a way to start heating Mars up (thereby releasing the frozen CO2 in the polar ice caps) for a couple bucks per taxpayer. No joke. Third, we need a lifeboat. We know how to divert asteroids and whatnot (provided they're found in time), but eventually, some cataclysm will wipe out, or at least do significant damage to the Earth. It might be in 20 years or 20 million, but it's happened before, and it will happen again. Fourth, Mars - with its thinner atmosphere and lower gravity - is the natural place to start colonizing the moons of Jupiter and the other gas giants. Those moons could be lighted and warmed up by massive fusion heaters (essentially artificial suns) orbiting/floating in the stratosphere of the gas giants, thereby collecting their fuel in the form of stray hydrogen. It's conceivable that every planet or its moons of adequate size could one day be colonized (except maybe Mercury; doubt that would be desirable or feasible).
I don't know about fire departments, but in the US, according to the Supreme Court, police departments are not obligated to act unless they specifically said they would. (for example: I call 911, the operator says an officer is on their way, they don't show up. The department is liable). Stupid doctrine, but is really the very reason why police departments has gone from one of protecting the public from getting their butts kicked, to one that is merely cleaning up after the fact (sorry - if I am already beat up or worse, you can't help me). Our local PD won't even respond to an unverified burglar alarm calls. They claim not to have the resources. Of course they have all the resources in the world to blanket the city to rid society of people who don't use seat belts (saving our democracy), or protecting the local donut shop from intruders (no joke - local hangout). 9/11 was unusual I am afraid to say. Most cops sit and wait until they have so much firepower they cannot lose. Unfortunately, the victim is either dead or hurt badly by that time (what good is the cops then?). Firefighters on the other hand do kick some major butt when it comes to actually saving people. There may be a doctrine in place for them as well - but I have never seen it used ever. (I have seen it used as a general rule in LE)
