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feeble-minded indeed. what are they criminalizing beach pebbles for? lot of that in the UK. I wonder if the cause is cultural, genetic or environmental. They j
by underlogic 2y ago
feeble-minded indeed. what are they criminalizing beach pebbles for?
lot of that in the UK. I wonder if the cause is cultural, genetic or environmental. They just don't seem to be playing with a full deck over there. One non sequitur after the next. I would suggest widespread brain damage from covid, but this has been going on for decades. There's something seriously wrong in the common reasoning and logic.
- snorkel 2y agoArticle mentions people were raiding beaches for free building materials like sand and stone for concrete, which would be a problem at a large volume. Enforcing the same rules on individual souvenir collectors seems excessive.
- zelphirkalt 2y agoExcessive, but potentially necessary, since otherwise you need to draw an arbitrary line between an amount being taken away that is still acceptavle and one that is not, and how many times that can happen in what period of time and so on. From that point of view it can make sense to simply categorically forbid people to take things away from the beach.
- JoeAltmaier 2y agoYup and that's where it gets silly. It's trivial to say "all you can carry" and be done with it. Nobody can carry away a beach in their hands.
- benterix 2y agoI think you underestimate the ingenuity of people who love to use free resources.
- citrin_ru 2y agoLaws are full of arbitrary drawn lines, it is hard to avoid them. If you don’t have an arbitrary line in the law then there will be arbitrary/selective enforcement which can be even worse.
- aaron695 2y ago[dead]