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Please consider that when people put themselves at risk it's rarely just them. There are collective costs to people getting hurt and needing to be saved, and i
by riffraff 6y ago
Please consider that when people put themselves at risk it's rarely just them.
There are collective costs to people getting hurt and needing to be saved, and it's not a black/white thing: we enforce safety belts, we remove dangerous rocks and trees looming on roads and so on all the time.
The bus was evaluated as an hazard that encourages unprepared people to do something and get hurt, it may be a bad call, but it's not just a restriction of "people should be free to choose".
- AdrianB1 6y agoYou are mixing things that should never be mixed: when you pay taxes, road maintenance - including removal of rocks and trees - is a service that you paid for and you have to get. Enforcing safety belts is not a service for you, it is a measure imposed by coercion by the state that believes it knows better. There is no similarity between these.
- riffraff 6y agoOf course they are not the same thing, they are just instances of the authorities deciding that X is unsafe. Also, the fact you pay for road maintenance does not indicate what maintenance is. People could be on the "I like looming rocks, they give character to this road, instead use my money to lay new asphalt instead of wasting it on landscape" camp. But the state thinks it knows better than you that exploding looming rocks is more important than letting you drive faster.