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Originally Posted by HarryT
In the UK, however, you can't get away with a driving offence by saying "I don't know who was driving the car at the time".
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Nor here. Nor should it. No matter who committed the red light or parking violation, it is coming out of the total income available to our family, so it makes no difference.
If you live in a close family unit, your being sanctioned always hurts your family. That's true if you go to jail. That's true for fines. That's true if they turn off your internet for not paying the bill. And it would, of course, also be true if they turned off your internet for disrespecting copyright. This is not some specific unfairness of the service cancellation mandate mistakenly alleged to have been enacted by the British parliament. Rather it is part of the fundamental and unavoidable unfairness of life.
Do we want to keep that fundamental unfairness to a minimum? Yes. You do that by avoidance of excessive punishments, not by thinking we can dream up a sanction that only hurts one person.