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Originally Posted by Zak64
You will never pass a law capable of protecting people from their own stupidity. Can't be done. If someones an idiot they're an idiot. No amount of laws or 'Elf 'n' Safety fascism will ever change that fact.
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I would agree that it’s impossible to provide legislation that is 100% effective in protecting people from their own stupidity, I would even say that t should not even be attempted, but there are cases whereby degrees of protection can be significantly improved by sensible legislation and in such cases, especially concerning road usage, it has been and should continue to be done.
How many people would wear seat belts if there was not a law that penalised the non wearing of them, and how many lives have been saved and serious injury avoided because of this law?
How many lives have been saved and serious injury avoided by the introduction of breath tests where the very knowledge of the test and what then follows?
Or unroadworthy cars taken off the roads by MOT tests?
Or all the other road safety legislation that is in place.
Because it prevents fools from overt foolishness and punishes those who do so anyway is that a reason to decry such legislation? Or to find it in the least bit funny that some idiot acted in an idiotic manner all in the name of a “joke”?
As I wrote, if there had been an accident as a result of the loss of control that the behaviour that forms the start of this thread because of such stupidity then the people in the car would have had the book thrown at them.
So why should they not be penalised for the same stupidity just because fortunately on that occasion there was no accident. The same stupidity was there nevertheless, simply the outcome was different.