At 05:48 03 October 2005, Eric Greenwell wrote:
Kilo Charlie wrote:
OK I'll 'bite back' BB.

I would prefer the statement to be 'you cannot legislate
good judgement'.
There is a huge difference between rules and laws
that protect life by
protecting the human body e.g. seat belts and parachutes
and those that make
an attempt to force people into making the 'correct'
choice.

OK, I'll bite: what is this huge difference, and how
does it apply to
contest rules? We also make traffic rules about stopping
at traffic
lights and driving on the right side of the rule, which
seem to be
safety related.


To push the auto analogy, I think KC is referring to
rules like 'you have to stop your car to answer your
cell phone', or 'motorists over 65 must take a road
driving test twice per year', or 'the interstate speed
limit should be set at 35 miles per hour'. I'm not
sure about the last one, but the first two have been
passed or proposed in many states in the interest of
safety. And I bet some on this forum would agree that
one or the more of them is actually worth the inconvenience
it would cost.

It's all a matter of where you draw the line - KC and
many others draw the line at trying to use rulemaking
compensate for judgement - a bit of a semantic line
drawing in itself.

9B