Re: Cyclist died after crash with walker

[Just zis Guy, you know?]

On Wed, 29 Dec 2004 06:50:50 +1100, will24387
<[email protected]> wrote in message
<[email protected]>:

>any law that could be brought in i think should be.

What /any/ law? There are a lot of laws that /could/ be brought in.
Some of them do some good, others don't. Most, on the face of it,
don't - largely because all the things which really needed to be
controlled (like assault and murder and theft) have been illegal since
forever, so any new law is very likely to be tinkering at the edges or
a knee-jerk reaction to stupid tabloid headlines.

I think I would probably vote for any party which made a manifesto
commitment to pass no new law without repealing at least one old one,
and to ensure that any new law enacted or repealed had pr-defined
success criteria, with the enactment or repeal automatically reversed
if the criteria are not met.

Guy
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blue, and theyre beastes wyth straynge horn-lyke thyngs
onn theyre arses that theyre fartes be herde from myles
around." Chaucer, the Sheppey Tales

 

[David Hansen]

On Tue, 28 Dec 2004 20:32:52 +0000 someone who may be "Just zis Guy,
you know?" <[email protected]> wrote this:-

>I think I would probably vote for any party which made a manifesto
>commitment to pass no new law without repealing at least one old one,
>and to ensure that any new law enacted or repealed had pr-defined
>success criteria, with the enactment or repeal automatically reversed
>if the criteria are not met.

You would need to think carefully about who measured this. The road
"safety" lobby have produced figures for decades that "demonstrate"
that their activities are beneficial.


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