Election Thread

[SwissMercenary]

If you read the article of MADD's intent, they mean to have devices installed in ALL cars. Not just offenders.

And that I would certainly oppose. Well, until they put their money where their mouths are.

The distinction wasn't clear in your last post. I've read the article, and got the jist that it should be installed in the cars of offenders.

And... I'm not worried about your regulations infringing on employers (your mind set), I'm pointing out you are infringing on employees who would like to get paid for 70 hour weeks.

That's exactly why I subscribe to option 3. Have standards, and require voluntary action on the part of the individual to choose to disregard those standards.

And, for your information, I'm an employer who has a salaried employee who worked 365 hours in August against my advice because they were dedicated to accomplishing a task. I cannot pay that person for the hours worked.

And I'm very much against that. If he wants to work overtime, and you don't expect everyone else to work unreasonable overtime, then by all means, he should do so.

In that case, yeah, you're right, there's something that's pretty wrong with the system. I don't agree that the system should be thrown out with the bathwater, though.

You have to do a degree of protection of the masses, because quite a lot of behaviours that I've spoken of are careless, reckless, or simply driven by greed at the expense of others. I have absolutely no qualms about limiting the freedom of people to exercise those behaviours, before we get mass poisoning, defective radiation therapy machines installed in hospitals, or people kneeling over on their couch, and not getting up from EA work weeks.

Behaviour that is otherwise typically harmless, such as owning firearms in your home (Although, let's not talk about that), having Opt-In options on contracts, and driving without breathalyser locks in your car when you've got a clean record, on the other hand should not be regulated.

The difference between not adhering to regulation in the former, against the latter, is that in the former, the regulation is there for a good reason - it's something that the employer/producer/driver should be doing in the first place if they have any concern for the safety of others. In the latter, it's a non-functioning band-aid.