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Originally Posted by dksuddeth
I guess JAIL would be too damned conservative of a tactic or punishment to use, right?
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Your inconsistency is exceeded only by your lack of logic. In the first place, you're inconsistent because earlier in this thread you railed against restricting privileges/rights just because someone fails to "conform to societal norms," and then you tell us to throw them in jail instead.
And you're illogical because throwing them in jail IS taking their driving ability away. Instead of imprisoning them right away, why not just take their driving ability away?
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It's called prior restraint. perhaps you've heard of it? it's the ideal of not having your rights removed or restricted until you've proven that you can't handle that responsibility. Something that USED to be upheld in the courts, until the new deal socialist crap.
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I don't think anyone's suggesting we should yank people's driver licenses just for fun. Only when they do something that makes them deserve having it yanked, like DWI.
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it's only been the last 80 years that the 'good of society' has been upheld over the rights of the individual. Until that time, individual rights were upheld.
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The hell they were. Or did you forget about those little incidents of slavery and segregation?
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What would happen if the state government of nebraska felt it was necessary to suspend all driving privileges?
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That government would be voted out, most likely recalled, and the next government would want to reinstate them - -but they wouldn't be able to because the courts would already have reinstated them.