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Originally Posted by Steven Lyle Jordan
Speeding not deadly?
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"Speeding" is a relative term. If the speed Limit was 1 MPH, then 2 MPH would be speeding. In the early twentieth century, driving 40mph would have been dangerously fast. Today, driving 40mph on the highway would be dangerously slow.
The the highest rate of accidents occurs among the slowest 5% of drivers. the German autobahns have no speedlimit for cars and motorcycles, yet their fatality rate is half that of US highways.
It is estimated that 90% of drivers "speed," and 75% do it regularly. So you can do one of two things;
1. Flood the streets with policeman and highway patrolman (good luck with that with governments cutting back on spending). Or
2. Design laws and regulations that take into account that people will drive at the speed they are comfortable driving and that traffic is largely self-regulating. Thus, if you want to reduce fatalities, the most efficient way to do so would be to improve highway design, have better roads, stricter standards for licensing, dynamic speed limits (this is possible with digital signs), better mandates for vehicular safety devices, and requirements for proof of proper vehicular maintenance(a large number of accidents are a result of poor vehicular maintenance, i.e. bad tires, bad brakes, bad steering, etc).
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Originally Posted by Steven Lyle Jordan
Your comments also make clear that you don't have a workable alternative to copyright either.
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Well, I posted The Artistic Freedom Vouchers idea from Dean Baker. Nevertheless, solutions should be ascertained through democratic discussion. Entrepreneurs figure out the monetization part, and history shows that if something is monetizable, entrepreneurs will monetize it.
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Assuming that simply removing the laws will result in a fair and workable system is denying a history of human nature.
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I could certainly give a few proposals, but in this thread my general point is that we should be discussing how to develop systems that will achieve the goals of compensating artists in lieu of modern technological developments. My solution was never removing laws. The vast majority of people view piracy as socially acceptable, and that number will only rise over time. So we can try to figure how to reconcile the widespread acceptance of piracy with the desire to compensate artists, or we can believe that Prohibition would have worked, the War on Drugs would have been a tremendous success, speeding laws would have eliminated traffic accidents, and copyright laws will eliminate piracy if only we had (or will) just double down.