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Re:Why do we have right-on-red, and is it time to get rid of... by henriquez on Sunday January 21, 2024 @01:07AM (#39076049)
Why blame drivers for right turn accidents when 93% of drivers don’t even own their vehicles? Banks who underwrite loans to dangerous drivers should be subject to criminal liability. If I give money to a bank robber so they can buy a getaway vehicle I could be charged as a criminal accessory to bank robbery. Only in America do we have double standards for capital owners while everyone else is left dead and bloody along the way.

Bernie Sanders talked about canceling debt but his plan would have simply paid off bankers, compliments of taxpayers. It’s time to hit bankers where it hurts - charge them with TREASON.

Re:Why do we have right-on-red, and is it time to get rid of... by eesmith on Sunday January 21, 2024 @02:22AM (#39076408)
The biggest insight I got from Vision Zero is that the focus on dangerous drivers is deeply flawed. All you are doing is doubling down on that flawed viewpoint, seemingly to justify your disdain of bankers, without really understanding the consequences your argument.

Roads and traffic laws did not appear by magic. They are created by people, and the design of those roads and laws, and the construction of those roads, contributes to any crashes. Some intersections are dangerous due to bad design, and it's possible to design a less dangerous intersection. We haven't made all intersections as safe as we can because it's expensive and a whole lot of people prefer shorter drive times and the increase in danger over safer intersections.

Using your logic, any city with a dangerous intersection - effectively all of them - are already committing TREASON, and the voters who authorized the bond sales which paid for them are accessories to crime who should be subject to criminal liabilities.

When the vast majority of adults are treasonous criminals who control state power, it's no longer treason or criminal. The large majority of the traitors and criminals who founded the US never faced British criminal punishment for their actions against the Crown. Calling George Washington a traitor will make you few friends in the US, yet that is what you are doing here.