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    People should still be punished for driving dangerously. Civil forfeiture is another issue.

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        The same place it says it’s for civil forfeiture. This being said the police officer does have a ticket in hand which implies some sort of safety violation.

        This comic could be taking place in China. The same scene could play out. Nothing specific to injustice in the USA here.

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            If I was driving dangerously it would only be just that I be punished proportionately. Same goes for everyone in every country.

            If you call that boot licking so be it.

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            If your state doesn’t do safety inspections that’s something you should talk with a state legislator about.

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              they officially are done, but only in the major citys and people living pretty much everywhere else is given exceptions. Safety inspections seem like a weird idea anyway, how does the government know what is safe for my usag of the vehicle. Is a lack of coolant a safety issue? What about a missing bumper? A half rotted frame?

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                  For most people yes. My perspective is that I really don’t want government inspecting every car on the road because those kinds of issues aren’t a meaningful part of the risk I undertake on the road which is dominated almost entirely by incompetence, failure to follow traffic laws, old people who shouldn’t be driving anymore, and morons using their phones while driving.

                  Perfect performance thus isn’t meaningfully expected to improve my safety but it will cost me money.

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                    You say that living in a world where the government at least actively controls what can be sold as a roadworthy vehicle, and unsafe cars can be taken off the street.
                    “I don’t want government doing what they’re currently doing because I never see any instances of the problem they’re trying to prevent”.
                    “We don’t need vaccines because I never see any of the diseases doctors are always wanting to vaccinate for”.

                    We used to sell cars where the steering wheel was solid steel and a low speed collision caved your face in. Industry only started to sell safer cars when they were forced to do so.

                    There’s being pissy about government abuse, and then there’s being upset about safety standards.

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                The government doesn’t know what’s safe but it can certainly know what is UNsafe.

                It’s insanity that your government allows 2 ton death machines to race around in public without safety inspections.

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                  The U.S. Government Accountability Office found the safety benefit too small to quantify that it exists.