(05-04-2020 05:31 PM)stinkfist Wrote: (05-04-2020 10:56 AM)Hambone10 Wrote: Why do you assume that 'best practices' are legal mandates? I understand that there certainly are over-reaching politicians who will try and do such things... but rather than be upset that people are making 'best practice' suggestions (which is a good and smart and VOLUNTARY thing) why not just focus on those why try and turn such a thing into a legal mandate?
This is precisely how you keep this from happening again. You give the 'fearful' parts of our population confidence that should this happen again, that they can be kept safe WITHOUT legal mandates.
let's assume (playing the lawyer at the holiday inn 420expresso), there are already too many laws to begin with....the butter is churning in the washtubbytonnage and the states...I'm lickin' muh chompers....
how in the hades can a logical/pragmatic thinker progress when the masses are mostly w/o comprehensive capability....
I can play this game all freakin' day....1 v. 0 are still only two left standing....
#gummingTheWorks
@abhorpolitics
addendum: do I need to add tort reform or address 'control mechanisms'....do I get to squash that one in muh next response....
I think you're missing my point.
let's assume (just copying your wording) that I agree that there are already too many laws... (I do, by the way).
If you view suggestions like 'washing your hands before you eat dinner' or 'holding a door for the elderly' in the same light as laws that say 'don't kill people', then you're in many ways CREATING the very situation you're saying exists.
The goal of the left is to turn best practices into law... My goal is to turn more laws into best practices.... mostly because if they're laws, they don't easily adapt and you face penalties for disagreeing... while if they're simply best practices, they change easily and you do not.
Example... just for clarity, not suggesting it... eliminate speed limits on highways.... instead suggest safe speeds based on the patch of road and conditions... that suggestion could change every few seconds if it needed to. A law could take years to change. If you are in or cause an accident because of your speed, you pay the price of the accident you caused.... if you want to and can safely drive at 120mph, you do that as well. The whole reason the law exists is because 'the government' doesn't trust you to drive safely.... and/or gets money/power from you.
Again, not suggesting this.. don't want to debate it... just giving an example of how to reduce laws without 'revolution' involving 'best practices'. If you seek revolution already, then what difference does this discussion make?