you can make a strong argument for either side. missing on your list of ratting him out: in some ways, it is the “right” thing to do. you are helping the justice system work, and it works on this very kind of situation. people get immunity all the time for cooperating with police to allow them to get a conviction on someone else. i know your situation is a hypothetical, but could you modify it at all? because as it is, its unlikely that if the two of you are partners, and neither is the mastermind/a bigger criminal, that you would be offered a deal. is it a set situation? if not, i would say that for some reason, they want your partner more than you, or maybe they cant prove much on you, but they can on him. etc. maybe this doesnt impact the argument at all, i dont know how your debate works, but the other side could fault your situation, which would surely work against you.
A prime case of racial discrimination
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Excerpt: It was a good start to the year for Sgt Leslie Turner who was awarded 30,000 pounds in an out-of-court settlement after suing Scotland Yard. Sgt Turner was the first black police officer in London’s Metropolitan Police to be made a Royal bodyguard. It was his job to guard HRH The Duchess of Cornwall – that’s Camilla, the Prince of Wales’ new missus, though in some sort of Britannic Teresa Heinz-type arrangement she doesn’t use the moniker “Princess of Walesâ€. Anyway, Sgt Turner ceased being a Royal bodyguard last spring and subsequently brought his suit for “racial discriminationâ€. Here’s the wrinkle: He claims he was over-promoted only because he was black. If he’d been a white copper, he’d have been given a job commensurate with his abilities and he’d have done it fine and been happy in his work. Instead, because he had the misfortune to be a black copper, his politically correct superiors singled him out for a job for which he was unqualified, thus leading to misery and dissatisfaction. The “affirmative action” turned out to be incredibly unaffirmative: In discriminating in favor of him because he was black, they in effect discriminated against him, also because he was black. That, at any rate, is what his lawyer argued, and it worked.
Wow. Damned if you don’t promote blacks, damned if you do promote blacks… man, I love Affirmative Action! :P
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That was funny as hell!
Reminds me of a young guy I used to work with a few years ago. He had a wierd accent, and one day I finaly asked him where he was from. He is from South Africa (white guy), and being curious of what that is like (never met one of them before) he told me about his culture. He didn’t seem overly racist, but he said there was a lot of it down there (any, story for a different thread). He was about to start college, and he was going to get some phat $ from all over the place because he is an “African American”. They don’t ask you on the forms to send in DNA or anything, he just gave them copies of papers showing that he is indeed from Africa. I thought it was a riot that he was doing it, good for him. He isn’t making a mockery of affirmitive action, affirmitive action is a mockery onto itself. And he had a good point to, “I am more African than what you people call African American, I grew up there!”
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I am with both of you… very good…AA is the worst solution for Black “justice” that was ever created.
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I am 1/32 black, so if i needed to i could benefit from it. :mrgreen:
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