[naming_the_user]

I'm aware that it's expensive but the alternative is pretty horrific.

A person that goes about assaulting people is a significant drain on society. It's not even just monetary, it ruins trust, it ruins the relations between the people who aren't antisocial. It also has the moral hazard effect of increasing the number of others that see that this behaviour ultimately goes unpunished.

As far as I'm concerned, there are very few legitimate reasons to raise taxes, but police and prisons are one of them, they are not problems that individuals can solve in the private sector.

[xattt]

There was another discussion around the Cannonball run, and how it should be allowed because no one gets hurt.

In a way it does, because it ruins trust as the participants treat your presence on the road like an inconvenience.

[CraigJPerry]

>> treat your presence on the road like an inconvenience

Aren’t we all a bit guilty of that? Maybe not all the time - when I see an ambulance whizz past or a fire truck, I’m appreciative of their efforts.

But everyone else? You’re just in the way ultimately. There isn’t much pleasure to be derived in waiting around for someone to have their fair turn at the intersection or whatever.

Obviously as a rational human I’m quite capable of suppressing such thoughts and generally abide by the traffic laws, but the point still stands.

[fennecfoxy]

I don't mind at all, waiting for my turn on the road. What I do mind is not receiving it in kind - in London a lot of people refuse to let you in, they see getting from A to B as some sort of competition. Meanwhile, I'll let a car in in front of me if I have the opportunity, only to be denied it when I need to slip in from a minor road during rush hour. Humans are a selfish species, thank evolution and resource contention.

[xattt]

Most folks don’t get on the road with a superiority complex. If we don’t believe in goodwill actions of others, society falls apart.