(11-23-2022 09:09 AM)Frizzy Owl Wrote:  

(11-23-2022 01:03 AM)OptimisticOwl Wrote:  

(11-22-2022 06:40 PM)RiceLad15 Wrote:  As I said earlier, if a car is speeding towards a cliff, the line of thinking above doesn't advocate for stopping the car since the wheels are currently on sound ground.

Lad seems to like speeding car analogies, so here is what I think more apropos to this question:

He wants to institute some sort of automatic barrier that will stop the car in case someday - maybe decades from now - there might be a cliff ahead of it.

The cliffs already have guardrails. The car isn't approaching a cliff, though.

Also, I hate speed bumps. 99% of the time, they are merely problematic.

Maybe a roadblock, with officers to check your papers, would solve this emerging problem.

Cliffs jump in front of speeding cars all the time. We need to be ready to handle this problem.

I note that Lad has posted this morning on the sports section, but has not deemed this important enough for his opinion today.