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According to Granny Herald (Nov 14, pg 5), 8 people were killed on Waikato roads, between Labour weekend and Nov 10 alone. The death toll is much higher across the country and adds up year by year.
When is the government going to start protecting the public from the scourge of roads? With road policy that addresses both demand and supply, with tough love law enforcement.
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Anyone using roads must be arrested and prosecuted, so they're incentivised to get off roads, and get their lives back on track. But those who supply roads need to be hit with the full force of the law, as the organised criminals they are. Profiting from the death and destruction the roads they supply cause to kiwi families.
It's time for a zero tolerance approach to the social and economic damage roads do in our society. Anything less must be condemned as being soft on roads.
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“We talked to psychologists and addiction specialists and our thinking evolved ... If they’re not a threat to society, we don’t need to treat them as criminals.”
#KShanmugam, Minister for Home Affairs and Law, Singapore, 2024
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx251p55le8o
And yet they do, as the article makes very clear. If someone is Singapore is using cannabis for casual recreation, instead of killing brain cells with alcohol (which is legal), they are imprisoned and psychologically coerced for 6 months.
I'm not going to claim that nobody was ever harmed by cannabis. But it's a cold, hard fact that alcohol causes much, much more harm, both physically and socially. So why does anyone think they're on the side of the angels when they support using the criminal justice system to coerce people who choose cannabis, while accepting that casual alcohol use is a choice an adult is allowed to make without legal coercion?
This was the point of the roads satire. We accept risk as a cost of freedom there.
@strypey aside from this, roads are explicitly a subsidy for car manufacturers and shipping companies, and use a titanic amount of space in cities where more than a third of people are homeless (paying a rentseeker thousands of dollars a month to not sleep on the street is a kind of homelessness).
*The climate and environmental impact of roads is a shared context I don't need to point out.
@strypey oh, you were being satirical, but I don't really understand the satire
@screwlisp
> I don't really understand the satire
Substitute the word "drugs" for "roads". Clear as mud? : P
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