fucht wrote:Another useful analogy: if a road had absolutely no speed limit, then
society could indeed rely on 99% of the people to nevertheless drive at a
safe speed. But the problem is, there will always be that last 1% of the
population, filled with utterly stupid, shallow, reckless, immature idiots
who just plain cannot and will not accept any limits as being "reasonable".
And they will end up killing other (innocent) people. If you doubt it, take a
look at what happened n Montana -- a huge and pretty much empty state -
- when they completely removed any speed limits from some of their
highways. They had good reasons for doing so. But within a few years,
they realized they had made a bad mistake, and had failed to take
adequately into account the tendency of a reckless and stupid (small)
minority to kill, not just themselves, but innocent people as well. So, they
adopted speed limits again.
Most parts of German highways don't have speed limits and things work pretty fine there.
Also, comparing society with a game of tennis on a parking lot is too simplifying, I think.
I don't know Max Hardcore, nor have I ever seen any of his vids. I just think that the government should
never convict
anyone because of bad taste, no matter how distastefull content may be.
The
one and
only exception is the case in which people get objectively, physically or psychologically hurt or abused. This should
never be tolerated.
As I've never seen Max Hardcore's vids (and considering the described content, I'm pretty sure I never will), I can't judge this specific case, so I'm just talking about the issue in general.