Registry officials fear irresponsible owners will take the slower vehicles on highways, causing accidents.
Seriously? In that case, we should bring back the Prohibition-era laws banning alcohol. After all, you wouldn't want an irresponsible drinker to get alcohol poisoning. Or maybe we should make an Amendment to cancel out the 2nd by banning all guns, knives, explosives, and other 'arms'. I wouldn't want an irresponsible citizen to shoot me. But first, let's make laws against mirrors. All of them. I'm trying to fly for the military, and I sure wouldn't want an irresponsible kid pointing a mirror up at my plane. That would blind me and I could crash!
Wrong, wrong, wrong.
What we should be doing is letting people live their lives. You can irresponsibly misuse anything. If the object in question is inherently dangerous to the public, as the tendency to drink out, then drive home is, we should regulate it, as we do. But when the object is something simple and mundane, we should not. You can't make stupid people stop being stupid. Sure, the vehicle is small, weak, and slow. If I ever got in one, I wouldn't get on the highway. Common sense tells me it's too dangerous.
And that's just it: common sense. When did our country lose the ability to use common sense? People can successfully sue restaurants for spilling hot coffee on themselves. Of course it's hot! It's coffee! If the judge in that case used ANY common sense, he would have told that lady off. You're an idiot. Coffee is supposed to be hot.
Alas, this mysterious thought-process has slipped away from the American culture. *sigh*
1 comment:
i agree. but sadly, my coffee is quite cold right now. i'm going to sue.
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