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Re: Gotta love Oracle...
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Wed, 10 Oct 2001 19:16:55 GMT
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Hello Larry,
> I believe you are caught in a contradiction, you have conceded that the
> licensing act does nothing to improve safety and that it is a personal
> responsibility issue and that licenses therefore are useless yet you still
> cling to the state and its false protective cloak.
No, you're trying to construct the contradiction, by requiring that the
result of a regulation must be perfect.
Requiring a license does improve safety (though not perfectly). True, it
just sets a minimum standard [1]. This is at least sensible, because some
people don't exercise personal responsibility in the way they should.
Greetings
Horst
[1] maybe too minimum, but you can't argue against that, when you also say
that getting the license easily is required by your understanding of freedom
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| (...) You haven't demonstrated that to my satisfaction. (...) Minimum standards tend to become maximum standards in a regulatory environment. (...) There are other, better, mechanisms for changing this behaviour than regulations. Regulations give a (...) (23 years ago, 11-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) So if it is ultimately the driver's responsibility, what good then is the license or the act of issuing it? (...) There is no difference in kind among these. Both are abrogations of responsibility. I believe you are caught in a contradiction, (...) (23 years ago, 8-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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