People in Uniform are Supposed to Help

    This thought occurred to me a few days ago. Or a week ago, same difference. There are complaints about some who wear various uniforms, be they police or military, doctors or nurses. All types of uniforms.

    A friend and client, if you will, used to come to our old house, on our smaller cul-de-sac not too far away, and pick up his son; sometimes I saw him wearing a collar shirt with his company logo on it. A uniform, conveying the message of his company and business, yes?

    Now we have all types of delivery service folks, starting with the U.S. postal service, to UPS (United Parcel Service), to Amazon Prime, which delivered a healing device to our home the other day, to others... FedEx, sure. A multiplicity of others. All competing for that business. In uniform.

    There are public servants in uniform, but there are privateers as well. The privateers of yesteryear are no longer called so. When did that go out of style? Now, do we call them contractors? Or sub-contractor? Almost like the guy who gets on a fishing vessel for the summer in Alaska? Is that the modern day privateer?

    Commercial fisherman where a sort of uniform, but perhaps not as rigidly uniform as other companies and organizations. It depends, I suppose, on the vision and protocols of the group. Some commercial fleets likely have their sailors and boat crews wear uniforms..

    How many people work on the seas?

    How many, or what percentage, wear uniforms? 

    And, what of these police that roam our streets and by ways? And what of the National Guard soldiers, now walking and talking in the streets of our capital, who look to go into the dangerous parts of Chicago, where murder is a norm, even to a bigger degree than D.C.?

    How do uniforms affect society? They should help, yes? Of course.

    The Israeli Defense Forces of the Holy Land are not helpful to many Palestinians. Of which, not just non-uniformed militants of Hamas, but nurses and doctors and emergency response workers who normally wear uniforms, even dozens upon dozens of journalists, who likely have a type of clothed or gear uniformity, are being killed by the other side.

    People in uniform kill other people in uniform. That is called war, typically. Like Russia and Ukraine. But plenty of civilians are dying too, which is sometimes an accident, and sometimes shamefully purposeful.

    And on that note, there are violent protests in Nepal because some videos were seen of some of them living opulently, so the normal poor folk went out to demand their taxes back.

    The uniforms versus the non-uniforms.

    Who is wrong and right?

    We cannot always say.