Should we demonstrate the same outrage regarding laws against driving after consuming certain beverages?
How about a simple solution for this problem: Punish offending drivers for damage actually done. The attempt at outlawing circumstances which may contribute to an accident is largely based on the notion that since some people cannot walk and chew gum at the same time, then walking and chewing gum simultaneously should be illegal. It makes no more sense than outlawing working testicles in the effort to prevent rape, before you consider all the secondary problems and the intrusiveness of such laws. Punish the wrong deed, not the opportunity for it to happen.
How about a simple solution for this problem: Punish offending drivers for damage actually done. The attempt at outlawing circumstances which may contribute to an accident is largely based on the notion that since some people cannot walk and chew gum at the same time, then walking and chewing gum simultaneously should be illegal. It makes no more sense than outlawing working testicles in the effort to prevent rape, before you consider all the secondary problems and the intrusiveness of such laws. Punish the wrong deed, not the opportunity for it to happen.
Can we now all please drop the charade that police do not make laws?
"The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws." - Tacitus
"The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools." -Herbert Spencer, English Philosopher (1820-1903)
This.
I posted a few months back that the police often lobby for a law, and then say "don't blame us, we just enforce it.". I stated that you can't lobby for a law and then say you had nothing to do with it.
Unclemike said I was just a cop-hater. Lol.
How about a simple solution for this problem: Punish offending drivers for damage actually done. The attempt at outlawing circumstances which may contribute to an accident is largely based on the notion that since some people cannot walk and chew gum at the same time, then walking and chewing gum simultaneously should be illegal. It makes no more sense than outlawing working testicles in the effort to prevent rape, before you consider all the secondary problems and the intrusiveness of such laws. Punish the wrong deed, not the opportunity for it to happen.
Punish the wrong deed, not the opportunity for it to happen.
Police are NOT legislatively neutral.
I never claimed they were politically neutral but they do not create law. They can lobby for it just as anyone else can, they may be looked at with some expectation of a certain level of experience or expertise on a subject but they do not decide what becomes law.
I'm sure wasting my breath because, at least on INGO, cops are responsible for most everything, but I'll continue to point out that which is wrong whether anyone wants to hear it or not.