It is a logical extension of what you said. After all, society can not function unless all laws are considered to be valid. I haven't seen anything anywhere that considers mere possession of a firearm to be evil in and of itself, regardless of cognizance of any prohibition against such.
That said, you're also playing fast and loose with "hiding that fact" and "pretending to be following the rule". Both of those statements imply explicit action that is almost certainly absent for anyone who is in such a situation. You also don't necessarily know what is and isn't a condition of employment for any particular person outside of your assertion that it is simply implicit in taking a job, nor do you
You also conflate fundamental performance of a job with ancillary administrative compliance in your attempt to force an analogy between a sleeping cop and an armed employee. The fundamental performance of a patrol officer is to, you know, patrol. The fundamental performance of my job is to engineer stuff. It is not to be "unarmed man sitting in cube farm" (though I also happen to be that).
Demonstrably untrue in multiple situations.Originally Posted by David Armstrong
Just curious, what university philosophy department are you citing?