| | I still can't believe people think Hotch was wrong to tell JJ she shouldn't call home to warn them in Amplification. Well, I can believe it because of how I'm interpreting their view. But, it's still foreign to me. First, I think people are viewing it as him not giving her permission. But, he wasn't stopping her or forbidding her from calling. He just told her the rules and leaving it up to her. And, I don't think JJ went to him as her boss, but as a fellow parent. Same as she went to Garcia as someone who would call without a second thought. She wasn't looking for permission but validation. Likely because she was hesitant herself.
But, of course, that's not the main thrust of the matter. It's that Hotch called Haley in Lessons Learned. Here's my thing. Naturally you shouldn't just go around blatantly breaking rules or doing whatever you want on a job. But, people are human. It's not an excuse, it's simply a fact. The best person is going to, at some point, do something wrong. Do people honestly think that once someone makes a mistake or breaks a rule, they have to tell other people to go ahead and break the rule as well? Well, yes, it's obvious they do. But, if I had a job and there was a rule that I wanted to break (for whatever reason) a rule, I'd expect my boss to say no. And, I wouldn't make him/her prove they had never broken the rule, because it's irrelevant. If they had, they were wrong. And, right there is the pertinent point. Someone else doing it first doesn't change it into being right when it's another person's turn.
It's not a rule, but by that logic, Morgan has no business working on any victimologies. (Say, in Honor Among Thieves?) After all, he didn't want anyone looking into his life. But, that's crazy.
Of course, since Hotch did call, I still say if he had found out, that he would be wrong to come down hard on JJ. You do not encourage, permit, or validate wrong doing. You just don't. But, if you've done something wrong, you shouldn't judge someone else in the same position any more harshly than you've judged yourself. That's where it would be hypocrisy. It's why I also can't believe (and in this case I really can't) the people who insist that JJ should turn in her badge and how terrible it was that she called. Because they didn't say the same thing about Hotch when he did it. And, didn't mention it this time.
So, from what I've seen, some people believe that once Hotch did it, it stopped being against the rules. (Otherwise, people are saying that he should tell someone to break the rules when they ask him -does anyone see the silliness of that?) So, by Amplification, it was no longer a break of protocol for JJ to do it. (And here's another thing. Would Prentiss or Reid -who I don't believe have broken that protocol- be wrong to tell her that she couldn't if she asked one of them? If the answer is no, they wouldn't be wrong, then what does that say? That the rule is fluid? There's only a rule against it depending on who you ask? Again, how does that work?) And, I got sidetracked. So, again, some believe that once Hotch did it, there stopped being a rule against it, so he had no right to tell JJ she couldn't. Other people believe that there was a rule against it and JJ should be judged by the strictest measure, but don't care that Hotch did it. I think that while it was understandable that both did, at no time was it ever not a break in protocol and at no time should either have been told "go ahead".
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