Re: UK: Drivers may be banned from smoking at the wheel

[Nick FitzGerald <nick () virus-l demon co uk>]

Andy Sutton to Drsolly:

> > The point isn't to protect people from their own folly, it's to
> > protect me from someone else's folly. 
>
> It's an common conceit to think that law equals protection.  At best it
> increases the consequences column, but never perfectly nor always in
> predicted ways.  People will still drink, drive, and jump the median.

It's a less common conceit -- except perhaps in the US?? -- to think 
that if a law does not stop 100% of whatever it is suppose to outlaw 
then it is necessarily a bad law.

Drink-driving laws -- or at least fairly extensive enforcement of them
-- have significantly contributed to a radical change in society-in-
general's attitude to and tolerance of drunk driving in many 
increasingly civilized countries.  I guess this result may yet afflict 
the Southern USofA, but it may take a few more ice-ages for the most 
steadfastly neanderthalic there to die-out/evolve...


Regards,

Nick FitzGerald

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