• Rivalarrival@lemmy.today
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    1 year ago

    Fines should be based on economic status. A basic fine should be the greater of half a day’s pay, or 0.1% of gross wealth before subtracting debt.

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      1 year ago

      That would make everyone actually follow the rules.

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      1 year ago

      No, no, no: manslaughter prision sentences for those who choose without real proven need to get a vehicle which is much more dangerous for pedestrians/cyclists and then end up killing a pedestrian/cyclist.

      If I went around running on the sidewalk holding a fucking spear (properly sharpenned) in front of me pointing forward, with no care in the World (for no reason other than wanting to look manly), and ended up goring and killing somebody with it, I would be fucking rotting in jail for it and rightly so, so the exact same logic should apply to people who knowingly choose the vehicular option most dangerous to others and then use it without “due care and attention”.

      (PS: Sorry for the foul language, but the double standards of the Law on this versus every other single situation out there were people knowingly endanger the life of others with no need, really anger me).