Andy Sutton to Drsolly: > > The point isn't to protect people from their own folly, it's to > > protect me from someone else's folly. > > It's an common conceit to think that law equals protection. At best it > increases the consequences column, but never perfectly nor always in > predicted ways. People will still drink, drive, and jump the median.
It's a less common conceit -- except perhaps in the US?? -- to think that if a law does not stop 100% of whatever it is suppose to outlaw then it is necessarily a bad law. Drink-driving laws -- or at least fairly extensive enforcement of them -- have significantly contributed to a radical change in society-in- general's attitude to and tolerance of drunk driving in many increasingly civilized countries. I guess this result may yet afflict the Southern USofA, but it may take a few more ice-ages for the most steadfastly neanderthalic there to die-out/evolve... Regards, Nick FitzGerald _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
