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    Posted: 21 Jul 15 at 5:20pm
Originally posted by JimC

I was mulling over the other day how strange the legal system is...

We are all expected to obey all applicable laws all the time, and if we don't we are subject to penalties up to and including permanent incarceration.

We receive little or no training as to what the law actually is.

We are not really notified officially when the law changes.

The law is so complex that even fully trained professionals have to specialise in limited areas of it to get a reasonable understanding.

The process that establishes whether we broke the law or not requires at least half a dozen expensive and fully trained professionals and takes at least hours, and possibly days or even weeks.


The law is an ass ... and ignorance is no excuse.

Common sense and a feel for what is right or wrong gets most of us through without a problem.

Driving is a odd part of life where people regularly break the laws of the land and behave in the most out of character ways ... I have witnessed people who I thought were normal and rational go crazy at another road user when behind the wheel of a car ...

I don't understand what causes this transformation.
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In many cases it is because on a nice quiet motorway, there is no more danger driving at 80 than 70, whereas stealing the crown jewels or nutting someone is plainly wrong.

In this video, for all we know, there could be a man with a bomb strapped to his chest in the middle of the road. Unlikely, but taking a video out of context can certainly bring wrong conclusions.
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N'ah RS is staffed by have-a-go hero types... Any one of their demo crew would MTFU and run the suicide bomber over, in fact given that context, weaponising an RS700 in the fight against terror seems like a wholly exploitable commercial opportunity.

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I think attitudes have changed in the last few years. Ever since the bankers and politicians appear to have "got away with it" why shouldn't I. Whether its a bit of cash in hand work, and who hasn't done that, or breaking a road rule. The I`m alright jack has taken example from those who were supposed to be setting the example.
Don't get me started on corporations and paying their due in tax.
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Originally posted by Old Timer

 

The law is an ass ... and ignorance is no excuse.

Common sense and a feel for what is right or wrong gets most of us through without a problem.


*Douglas Bader had it about right.

But it did cost him his legs.






*For those not of our more enlightened generation, it was he who said "Rules are for the guidance of wise men and the obedience of fools"
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Originally posted by rogerd

I think attitudes have changed in the last few years. Ever since the bankers and politicians appear to have "got away with it" why shouldn't I. Whether its a bit of cash in hand work, and who hasn't done that, or breaking a road rule. The I`m alright jack has taken example from those who were supposed to be setting the example.
Don't get me started on corporations and paying their due in tax.

That is exactly correct, when the very leader of this land fiddled his expenses to get wisteria cleared from his chimney and went un punished, why the feck should the rest of us toe the line.




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Originally posted by Woodburner

.. . said "Rules are for the guidance of wise men and the obedience of fools"


And demonstrated that it can be hard to figure out which one you are being until it's too late.
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........and those plonkers maybe struggling for a leg to stand on too
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Originally posted by JimC

Originally posted by Woodburner

.. . said "Rules are for the guidance of wise men and the obedience of fools"


And demonstrated that it can be hard to figure out which one you are being until it's too late.


That is something I have only ever seen quoted by fools ...
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