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A drunk driver is already knowingly drunk and driving one+ ton of metal around at lethally high speeds. Many of these young people, possibly even the vast major
by shadowprofile77 6y ago
A drunk driver is already knowingly drunk and driving one+ ton of metal around at lethally high speeds. Many of these young people, possibly even the vast majority of them, are not knowingly infected, but being treated as if they were all contagious and thus uniformly the equivalents of drunk drivers. Moreover, this is being based on very questionable cause and effect speculation about how much damage said young people are causing in terms of contagion.
Your analogy is just bad. Closer would be banning all drivers between a certain age rubric because possibly, maybe, some of them will get drunk and drive.
If anybody proposed that, it would be rightly derided, but here with politically motivated COVID panic based on still poorly understood evidence is somehow making this absurd restriction seem okay to an awful lot of people right here on HN.
- scotty79 6y agoStudent are "driving" bioreactors that can easily start manufacturing bioweapon and spread it around. Some responsibility must be imposed if the one they assumed themselves was insufficient.
- ardy42 6y ago> Your analogy is just bad. Closer would be banning all drivers between a certain age rubric because possibly, maybe, some of them will get drunk and drive. You know we already ban all drivers "between a certain age rubric"? Try to get your driver's license from age 0-15.
- shadowprofile77 6y agoI was referring to adult drivers or at least those with more or less adult faculties and physiology (and in some rural areas depending on country, farm and country driving for younger 12 to 15 year old's is definitely tolerated or even conditionally legal.) Now you're just entering absurdity by comparing my previous comment to bans on drivers so young that half the ages you mention couldn't even reach a brake pedal in a normal car.