On Mon, 14 May 2007, Andy Sutton wrote: > On Tue, 2007-05-15 at 01:15 +0100, Drsolly wrote: > > Yes, but wouldn't it be nice if people were discouraged from driving > > while out of their moinds on booze? I'm not after perfect safety, I > > just want things to be a bit better than they would be with millions > > of boozed-up idiots not controlling a ton or two of car. > > I agree it would be very nice, but that doesn't make it so. People will > do what people will do, and Law is a very poor deterrent - even if you > could substitute our kittenish punishments for some real zingers from > say the dark ages. I would even go so far as to say it makes things > somewhat worse through a false sense of security. > > We need more eyes open to the threat that is still present in the > system. "We need a law" just doesn't work as advertised. It works great here. Maybe Americans ignore the law. Maybe you should abolish that silly "drive on the right" law, it makes things worse through a false sense of security.
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