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From: AMuzi <am@yellowjersey.org>
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Subject: Re: cyclists attack auto driver
Date: Sat, 17 Aug 2024 10:06:23 -0500
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On 8/17/2024 8:52 AM, Catrike Ryder wrote:
> On Sat, 17 Aug 2024 08:28:43 -0500, AMuzi <am@yellowjersey.org> wrote:
> 
>> On 8/16/2024 9:33 PM, Frank Krygowski wrote:
>>> On 8/16/2024 10:19 PM, AMuzi wrote:
>>>> On 8/16/2024 8:08 PM, Frank Krygowski wrote:
>>>>> On 8/16/2024 3:59 PM, Catrike Ryder wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Krygowski has yet to comprehend the simple fact that
>>>>>> benefits and
>>>>>> detriments are subjective.
>>>>>
>>>>> Benefits and detriments can very often be measured. The
>>>>> benefits of bicycling have been measured in terms of
>>>>> increased health, reduced health care costs, years of
>>>>> life saved, pollution reduced, etc. etc. I've seen and
>>>>> filed at least five studies that have done that, each one
>>>>> showing that the benefits of bicycling far outweigh its
>>>>> tiny risks.
>>>>>
>>>>> The detriments of American gun craziness can also be
>>>>> measured. As just one example, huge numbers of schools
>>>>> now hire full time security guards in case some whacko
>>>>> with an AR attempts to enter the building. The buildings
>>>>> themselves are now often "hardened," with various weapon
>>>>> detecting and weapon resisting technologies. That was
>>>>> never the case until the current gun mania came into
>>>>> fashion; and taxpayers pick up the bill for that extra
>>>>> security - as they do for advanced protective equipment
>>>>> for most policing. So we all pay for the gun fetishists
>>>>> fantasy hobby.
>>>>>
>>>>> It would make sense to levy a massive tax on every gun
>>>>> with, say, more than 6 rounds capacity, to pay for the
>>>>> security expenses they generate. But of course, the
>>>>> "Gotta have a big gun" crew is also the "No new taxes"
>>>>> crew. They want others to pay for their play toys'
>>>>> consequences.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> p.s.
>>>> You cannot tax an enumerated right. *example = poll tax)
>>>> This is once again in the courts.
>>>
>>> You may be right. But I didn't say it was legally possible.
>>> I said only that it would make sense.
>>>
>>
>> Not in our (yet relatively)  free Constitutional Republic.
>> It's nonsense.
>>
>> More deeply, as Chesterton actually wrote (popularly
>> misquoted by JFK):
>>
>> In the matter of reforming things, as distinct from
>> deforming them, there is one plain and simple principle; a
>> principle which will probably be called a paradox. There
>> exists in such a case a certain institution or law; let us
>> say, for the sake of simplicity, a fence or gate erected
>> across a road. The more modern type of reformer goes gaily
>> up to it and says, “I don’t see the use of this; let us
>> clear it away.” To which the more intelligent type of
>> reformer will do well to answer: “If you don’t see the use
>> of it, I certainly won’t let you clear it away. Go away and
>> think. Then, when you can come back and tell me that you do
>> see the use of it, I may allow you to destroy it.
>>
>> Our Framers had indeed thought deeply before composing our
>> Constitution and argued, discussed, fought and reconsidered
>> repeatedly before writing.
> 
> How wonderful is the fact that they made the requirments for amending
> the Constitution too difficult and complex for the bureaucrats to
> fiddle with it in accordance with their whims and presumptions.


Uh, mostly.
Not including the occasional mass hysteria:

https://constitution.congress.gov/constitution/amendment-18/

Or our modern inability to think logically or compose clearly:

https://constitution.congress.gov/constitution/amendment-25/

-- 
Andrew Muzi
am@yellowjersey.org
Open every day since 1 April, 1971