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The potentially illegal/unconstitutional part of it is the prevention of abortions. Encouraging citizens to bounty hunt each other... that's the novelty that t
by technobabbler 5y ago
The potentially illegal/unconstitutional part of it is the prevention of abortions.
Encouraging citizens to bounty hunt each other... that's the novelty that the other states are copying.
These creepy "see something, say something" laws turn neighbor against neighbor, criminalizing behavior that would otherwise be considered acceptable, and turn passive observers into active enforcers for the sake of profit.
- magicalist 5y ago> criminalizing behavior that would otherwise be considered acceptable Again, these situations are not comparable. Idling commercial vehicles are already disallowed, this program literally gives a cut of the fine the government is going to impose.
- technobabbler 5y agoLaws -- whether abortion or idling -- aren't some permanent unchangeable thing. They just cater to the whims of lawmakers and public opinion of the day. Idling wasn't always illegal in NYC either; somebody made it so, and then tacked on the bounty hunting in 2015. Preventing abortion may be illegal now, but probably won't be for much longer if the rigged Supreme Court gets its way. Still, that isn't a novelty. Control of abortion has been a partisan fight for decades. Idling just doesn't attract the same constitutional scrutiny (and why should it). The bounty hunting thing is an additional layer on top of that, however, and one that's relatively novel. It's why California copied it for the gun bounty.