Thu Sep 4 22:59:05 1997
- Message No. 1381
From: Hans
Subject: Re: SHIT!
At 14:35 2-09-97 +0200, Jorn wrote:
>At 13:34 97-09-02 +0200, Hans wrote:
>>It is not about new or old and safe or unsafe cars. It is about exceeding
>>the speed limit.
>
>Precisely! That's what's wrong. It's, as you say, not about doing something
>that's dangerous or not, it is about obeying or not. So it has nothing to
>do with the safety of the citizens, only with their obedience to the
>government.
Well, it has everything to do with safety. We all agree that the speed
limits are there to prevent people from other people. If people were less
egoistic and had the decency to drive more carefull there would be a lot
less acidents and the speed limits were unnecessary. Since my neighbour
won't listen to me we have a government that makes rules for everyone to
live by. We all agreed that the rules are necessary and we all agreed that
when you break them you pay a fine.
>
>Something is definitely wrong here: The punishment for something more
>dangerous (speeding in an old wreck) is higher than for something less
>dangerous (speeding in a car that can handle the speed). Dangers aside, the
>disobedience is the same in both cases. Then, why should the punishment be
>100 to 1000 times harder in some cases than in other cases?
Yes, don't look at the dangerlevel. The punishment is the same. Everyone
pays the same fine. Either money or the money plus the car. And it is also
not air that some people are born with a spoon in their mouth. If that's
what you don't like then socialism o communism is around the corner.
I think they guy (or girl) that speeds in an old wreck gets a speeding
ticket AND a ticket for the rotten state his/her car is in.
>
>>It has always been that people with a lot of money can afford to loose a
>>couple of cars/bikes. But the law does not take that into account. The law
>>judges everybody alike. At least it should.
>
>Not if the car is confiscated. That's very unalike, depending on the car
>you lose.
No way. It says: no matter who you are, if you 30+ kmph to fast you hand
over the keys. It is not the car but the driver that does it. And so the
driver pays. Assuming that most people drive the car they can afford, they
are all equally hurt.
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