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Yes indeed! For some kind of evidence towards this, try walking on the streets of a city where running red lights, speeding, and driving on the wrong side of th
by mangamadaiyan 11y ago
Yes indeed! For some kind of evidence towards this, try walking on the streets of a city where running red lights, speeding, and driving on the wrong side of the road are reasonably common. (I'm not joking - where I live, this /is/ common.)
It's a victimless crime, all right - but only until the next victim.
- slavik81 11y agoI'd argue it's not. People breaking traffic rules erode my ability to travel. If they were to regularly speed through red lights, I'd have to stop at green lights to watch for them. I have a right to travel through on a green light, but they'd take that from me. We need to obey the rules of the road so other drivers can reason about our behaviour. We could have no rules, but it would be much less efficient. This is the prisoner's dilemma and the law enforces cooperation.
- titanomachy 11y agoTrue, you don't have to be killed or maimed to be a "victim".
- mangamadaiyan 11y agoThank you, slavik and titanomachy - this was pretty much the point I was /trying/ to make, it didn't come out right.