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> This kind of behaviour should be discouraged and a fine is entirely appropriate to discourage it. I would actually go so far as to say that the fine should h
by clicks 13y ago
> This kind of behaviour should be discouraged and a fine is entirely appropriate to discourage it.
I would actually go so far as to say that the fine should have been much bigger. This is something that annoys me about tickets being a fixed amount: is it really a true deterrent to bad behavior when the fine is so negligibly small that you basically don't give a damn? The purpose of punishment is to reform bad behavior, bad behavior that is dangerous to others. When you're going 80+ kph above speed limit you're not just putting your own life at danger, you're putting other innocent people in the vicinity at danger too. A ticket should not be $400 at that point when you're a billionaire, it should be $4 million. $400 is likely not enough forceful enough as a corrective measure. In this instance I'd have been happier if the fine Parker incurred was above $25 million.
- cschmidt 13y agoThey do that with traffic tickets in Finland and Switzerland. You've probably heard of the $290,000 speeding ticket levied against a wealthy Swiss guy. http://marcfbellemare.com/wordpress/2012/02/speeding-fines-that-vary-with-income-absolute-vs-relative-risk-aversion-and-public-policy/ http://marcfbellemare.com/wordpress/2012/02/speeding-fines-t... (The link is an interesting discussion of relative vs absolute risk aversion, with regard to tickets.)
- craigching 13y agoEither that or take something more valuable from them, like their time. Make them do community service!
- tixocloud 13y agoI would think that community service with no way of paying your way out of it would be a better deterrent than fines.
- FireBeyond 13y agoYou would think that. I would think that too. History and celebrities have shown that when the courts think that, these people -still- don't think the rules will apply to them and will either lie about it, do self-serving "community" service, make excuses about how they can't because they are too high profile or busy, or out and out bribe people, either to do the work for them, or to fraudulently attest to their service.