Another safety scam on the way

Spike

Gad what fools these morons be.... Children are obscene but should not be heard Give me a peperoni pizza... or give me a calzone!

Does that make it right?

If some dork tries to kneecap me with his ride.... I hope like hell he has the "friendly" hood and no bolt on gewgaws.... The fact that "s*it happens" doesn't mean it has to be a permanent or final thing.

Society has already blessed itself with a cavalier attitude towards mistakes...... I can't count how many times I've s*it my trousers and left a single long black skidmark while riding my scooter only to receive a sheepish grin and shoulder shrug from some asshole on a cellphone as they breeze through a controlled intersection....

We have demonstrated the need for society to be protected from itself..... but we will bitch because someone realizes it...

Probably no more than anything else in this world, but you'd have individuals take zero responsibility for anything they do, and put it all on government to babysit everyone.

And on top of that, you select a government agency/agencies to institute this protection. Who picks them? Who set the limits that they can go? Are we giving them carte blanc to do anything and everything they see necessary to protect us from ourselves? Could they, for example, mandate that no one over the age of 55 is permitted to drive? Or mandate some electronic gizmo in every vehicle which limits the number of hours you can drive in a day? Or mandate that every car which is over X years old, or gets under Y mpg must be taken off the road? How far are you willing to allow it to go?

Eventually, I think you can push the limit to the point where the whole system will break down.

Much like giving juries a free hand in awarding judgments. That free hand has created a nightmare. Judgments way out of proportion to the cause, and an inducement for people to file suit on anything and everything, because they know the odds are in their favor with a jury that they will win cases even when they are essentially groundless, and that juries are more apt to award large judgments in favor of "victims". That leads to backed up court cases, and, like a stopped up toilet, an overflowing mess.

Nope. I can't see giving carte blanc that way.

I'm not knock>Does that make it right?

Spike

Gad what fools these morons be.... Children are obscene but should not be heard Give me a peperoni pizza... or give me a calzone!

That's one of my problems with requiring air bags in ALL vehicles. If your wife decides that the disease needs her to not wear a belt, the SRS (per the warning sticker) MAY cause serious injury or even death, but the belt itself may cause her the same.... Catch 22? Now add in the difficulty in finding someone who will disable the SRS, so that she can "safely" drive without the seatbelt... Because it would only be acceptable for her to drive with the SRS disabled, it would need to (for insurance reasons) be functional when you are in that seat... Your example touches close to home here, too, we have a neice with that disease also. I consider all aspects of life as you refer to the different diseases- there are lifestyle issues where each of us should be responsible for our own behavior, and there are collective issues that each of us should help others with. My concern is that the BIG BROTHERs among us are constantly blurring those lines, and the sheeple seem to like being responsible for less and less, because they don't have nearly as many choices to make.