Drago
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As mentioned in another topic...driving bans.
It takes a lot of effort to get banned from driving. A lot. A real lot.
There are two ways to lose your licence:
1) You must accumulate 12 or more points over a rolling period of 3 years or less. This involves repeated, multiple, minor offending. You either have to try real hard, be reckless, or else oblivious to the point of criminal negligence to manage this feat.
2) The other route to licence loss is to commit a single road crime of heinous seriousness, anything from drink driving up to death by dangerous.
Driving is a privilege and it would appear society and the law take a fairly relaxed view about the level of naughtiness they will put up with before a driver risks losing that privilege.
So, considering it takes either quite a bit of effort over time, or one almighty great piece of dangerousness before that privilege is withdrawn, should banned drivers ever be allowed to hold a licence again?
Society says pilots, shotgun licence holders, commercial boat skippers, doctors, train drivers, teachers, pharmacists, even school admin staff are never allowed to fly/drive/do whatever it is they do ever again once that privilege is withdrawn.
No argument about hardship will protect them from losing the relevant licenece/right, so why are those that endanger others with kinetic weapons ever allowed back behind the wheel?
It takes a lot of effort to get banned from driving. A lot. A real lot.
There are two ways to lose your licence:
1) You must accumulate 12 or more points over a rolling period of 3 years or less. This involves repeated, multiple, minor offending. You either have to try real hard, be reckless, or else oblivious to the point of criminal negligence to manage this feat.
2) The other route to licence loss is to commit a single road crime of heinous seriousness, anything from drink driving up to death by dangerous.
Driving is a privilege and it would appear society and the law take a fairly relaxed view about the level of naughtiness they will put up with before a driver risks losing that privilege.
So, considering it takes either quite a bit of effort over time, or one almighty great piece of dangerousness before that privilege is withdrawn, should banned drivers ever be allowed to hold a licence again?
Society says pilots, shotgun licence holders, commercial boat skippers, doctors, train drivers, teachers, pharmacists, even school admin staff are never allowed to fly/drive/do whatever it is they do ever again once that privilege is withdrawn.
No argument about hardship will protect them from losing the relevant licenece/right, so why are those that endanger others with kinetic weapons ever allowed back behind the wheel?
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