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Well, you should still report them. I see what you're saying. There are two fallacies at play: 1) same logic that people use to reason out of voting (it doesn
by odonnellryan 11y ago
Well, you should still report them.
I see what you're saying. There are two fallacies at play:
1) same logic that people use to reason out of voting (it doesn't matter if I do x because it hasn't mattered before).
2) the logic that because it's illegal means it isn't permitted (which is, as you stated, not always true).
I'm not sure if it truly matters if people report taxis. What I am sure about is it will never matter if no one cares to report them to begin with. This works for any system.
- SilasX 11y agoI think I (and those who agreed with me) failed to convey the subtext of our objection, which is: We don't care about illegality per se. We care about "not making the bad thing happen". If illegality accomplishes that, great! But if it doesn't, then it is non-responsive to our concerns to remind us that it does. It's like if you're going to friends talking about problems you encounter, and all they ever tell you is, "Well that's not supposed to happen". The process of enforcing the illegality puts a lot of burden on the customer, and your response recognizes that it requires people going far out of their way. In practice, a system that requires most individuals to make heroic sacrifices is the same as a system that just doesn't work.