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What I said was that if you drive negligently and cause a crash your chance of being charged go WAY WAY up. This is the case with speeding, drunk driving, texting, etc. If you were speeding, drunk driving, texting on your phone and cause and accident and the police can prove it I would suggest you ...

Your claim that the people who are ticketed for red light violations and speeding violations are generally those who have caused an accident is false. Now, what do you think has the most effect overall on reducing traffic speeds - the tickets that are given to speeders after they have caused an acc...

How much benefit is there in punishing negligence based on whether or not someone is actually injured? So that you and I might both do the exact same thing, but only one of us gets to go to prison based the random chance of which of us managed to hurt someone by that action? That is the reality we ...

I feel like if you refuse to shovel and salt the sidewalk in front of the house, and your neighbor slips, falls, and breaks his leg, there might be more reason for a fine as compared with if you yourself slip and fall and break your own leg. Also, there are situations where parents neglect their ch...

Russian historians like to mark the start of their WW2 with the German invasion in June 1941. But in truth it started in September 1939 when they cooperatively invaded and partitioned Poland together with Germany. Why pick that as the start of the WW2 rather than also include the actions of the sur...

I feel like if you refuse to shovel and salt the sidewalk in front of the house, and your neighbor slips, falls, and breaks his leg, there might be more reason for a fine as compared with if you yourself slip and fall and break your own leg. Also, there are situations where parents neglect their chi...

Words have meanings. How exactly were the SAR team negligent? Well, one of them died in this apparently dangerous waterfall, and we just got done hearing a lecture about how if your child dies in this waterfall it's obviously your fault. Don't see how the SAR team is fundamentally different. (I'm n...

Judas Maccabeus wrote: ↑Fri May 17, 2024 12:02 am Clearing error

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Anyone close enough to overtake me so I fall off the list? That might constitute negligence and the person causing you to fall might end up in prison on felony charges. So… who are we charging if I “fall” off of Mennonet? You'd probably have to come back on and testify before any charges could be f...

Soloist wrote: ↑Thu May 16, 2024 1:01 pm Anyone close enough to overtake me so I fall off the list?

That might constitute negligence and the person causing you to fall might end up in prison on felony charges.