Of course, should Clause 2 of this bill be repealed, then quite a number of people will have their right to free speech severely curtailed, on account of them being severely maimed or dead. Clause 2 is a common sense measure designed to reduce the likelihood of people utilising mobiles in cars, which, as I can attest to, are extremely distracting and cause people to make needless errors.
I must say, this just seems another one of those poorly thought through 'freederms' bills, where the main argument utilised in support is, you guessed it, 'mah freederms'. Of course, I've always felt that the concept of freedom to be a rather superfluous one is it leads to you crashing your car into another car or ramming it into the side of a tree. We need to keep the roads safe, and this can be done at least partially through the maintenance of a legal code of conduct as shown here.
I would say, however, that Tmthforu's proposal with regards to safety seats is a common sense one, and should be implemented.
I would say the idea that using a cell phone while driving is so dangerous and commonplace to require legislation to address it is a dangerous one. Likewise, it implies that there is a degree more danger to talking on a cellphone, the action of having one hand up against your ear while also looking both ways and other common sense driving tactics apply to other actions that one might do in a car. . . . like driving around with full blast metal music, having a chair in your car that blocks the "blind spots" of your car, or having more than one person in your vehicle. I can say, especially in the case of the latter, there is just as much if not more of a danger associated with it than talking on your cell phone in traffic.
Don't believe me? You try driving a thousand miles with your sister-inlaw and telling me it isn't a factor.
So, should we ban driving with your inlaws too? Since that would inevitably take away somebody's freedom of speech because they might get killed by your car or they just won't shut the hell up?
Of course, in this kind of culture where people prefer to blame inanimate objects over their own stupidity, I am not surprised this is the first argument the Reich Wing resorts to. I'll compromise on this bill, but I will never buy this flawed "anythings fault but mine!" logic sold to us by the Federalists of this region. We should hold bad drivers accountable for being bad drivers, nothing more and nothing less.
