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From: tetraethylleadREMOVETHIS@yahoo.com
On 2014-03-10, Jolly Roger wrote:
> On 2014-03-10, Brent wrote:
>> On 2014-03-10, Your Name wrote:
>>
>>> You're never going to convince the idiot brigade that removing any
>>> unnecessary distraction which reduces accidents is a good thing ...
>>> just look at the moronic stupidity of continuing to allow public gun
>>> use in America despite the ever increasing number of school / mall
>>> shooting sprees. :-\
>>
>> The root cause of the shootings is most likely the FDA approved,
>> government licensed doctor prescribed drugs. They are the common
>> thread and violent and/or suicidal outbursts are known side effects.
>> Blaming guns is like blaming the car.
>
> That might be true if a car's main purpose was to kill. Nice try.
Talk to some anti-car folks and they'll tell you cars are killing
machines.
Meanwhile millions upon millions of guns kill nothing. Take out
governments' wars and the purpose of guns becomes clearly one of not
killing people. Just like any tool, any object, it's main purpose is the
purpose of those who control it.
>>> The idiot brigade simply wants to do whatever they want to do, and
>>> couldn't care less about anyone else ... until they are the ones
>>> experiencing the problem (e.g. a son dies in a car smash), and then
>>> they instantly change sides and campaign for a ban.
>>
>> Driving in the USA is dumbed down so much that the result is bordom.
> I couldn't disagree more with your assessment. I certainly don't find
> driving defensively boring at all. There are many challenges present the
> minute you enter the road, and there are many ways to improve your
> driving skills without distracting yourself with things that have
> nothing at all to do with the task at hand.
Drive a eight lane interstate late at night at the 55mph PSL and get
back to me.
>> This is the direction things started heading in the 1930s. As driving
>> becomes more boring it becomes something people do while doing something
>> else. They need entertainment while driving because driving is boring.
>> In order to discourage driving it is now being made painful in some
>> places. This only drives people to diversion to numb the pain of sitting
>> in endless traffic jams.
> Blame the boredom. Got it.
In Mark Rask's book he discusses the PA turn pike. It opened without a
speed limit. When a speed limit was imposed it was suggested each driver
be given a cup of coffee at the toll booth to stay awake.
So again, drive an interstate at 55mph and get back to me. Even at 70
most are boring. Driving has been made boring by the same people who now
think that bans on a few contributing factors to bad driving can fix
things.
>> Americans don't root cause. It's an obey and punish society. People
>> feel instead of think. Thus only a few socially unacceptable
>> distractions are banned. Furthermore if bad driving were punished then
>> it wouldn't play social favorites with regards to contributing factors
>> for the bad driving.
> You must have used an extremely small sample size to arrive at this
> conclusion. Try again with more.
You've clearly never paid attention to how things work in this country.
For instance, this issue. People are driving bad due to distraction from
cell phones. What's the solution? Ban cell phones and then punish the
people who use them while driving. Look at a problem as simple as red
light running. Real solution is to fix the signal timing and other
engineering defects. What do americans do? Put up a red light camera to
punish the violators. Pretty much every problem in this country is
"solved" by punishing people.
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