"...little May wasn’t unceremoniously shoved into a canvas sack along with the other packages. As it turns out, she was accompanied on her trip by her mother’s cousin, who worked as a clerk for the railway mail service, Lynch says. It’s likely that his influence (and his willingness to chaperone his young cousin) is what convinced local officials to send the little girl along with the mail."
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Would you consider daycare centers and the like to be more or less reprehensible?
The calling it throwaway was a mistake of mine, I should have called it Anon or similar because anonymity not disposability was its purpose.
To put it another way, If the arrest is valid then who cares if I'm not a real cop?
> If the arrest is valid then who cares if I'm not a real cop?
In the uk, no-one. We have citizens' arrest. It appears the US has similar https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizen's_arrest#United_States
My response was to the comment:
> If the criticism is valid then its source is surely irrelevant.
If the account was a throwaway, the source would have mattered. I think it's worth making this counterpoint irrespective of whether your account is a throwaway, since you made an argument that would seem to defend that case.