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  • False. Police agencies are the only institutions legally allowed to discriminate based on intelligence when it comes to hiring. Jordan v. City of New London set the precedent that its okay for police forces to refuse to hire a person because they are too smart. The reasoning in court was that those who are too intelligent face the risk of finding the work boring or becoming distracted by issues outside of the scope of their work. What that means from a practical standpoint is that they want dumb, obedient candidates for police positions rather than logical critical thinking individuals who might actually follow the law over orders from superiors. Its the same thing in the military too.

    In the face of the facts, university education is probably more often a disqualification for actual law enforcement.


  • Have you considered that being a small business owner might not have made you a better person?

    What did you do for employees who were fired? Did you try to help them line up another job, or just told them you were downsizing and moved on?

    You said this was a big deal for the small town you were in. What was your reputation as a business? Did you get the job done at all costs, or did you start cutting corners towards the end?

    I’ve met plenty of small business owners in 20 years of industrial manufacturing. Not a single one of them was a good person. They took the hard decisions they had to make to run their business and applied them to every aspect of their lives. Everything is a fight, and every compromise is a war. Its hard to be friendly to someone who competes with the rest of the world at large.