Car break-ins

[fillyboy]

Did I mention that the police caught the chap who broke into my wife's car.

All's well that ends well.

 

[Deleted member 18243]

On what basis should drugs laws be based if no account is to be taken of their relative dangers?

The basis of historical fact and precedent is a good basis for laws. Alcohol is our historically preferred drug and the one whose effects, good and bad, are the most widely known.

So if you went to Saudi Arabia or Kuwait and drank beer or red wine, how would that make you a bad person? I dont just mean "lawbreaker", I mean bad person with all that that entails. And how would it make you commit other criminal acts there, as we know you would do?

Saudi Arabia and Kuwait are barbaric, backward countries that do not have the rule of law so the comparison is not straightforward. However if I were to go there (which I certainly will never do) I would respect their rules, as I would respect any country's rules, and not drink alcohol. It wouldn't be difficult as there are plenty of places and situations at home where I am forbidden from and therefore don't drink alcohol - at work for instance. I would be a bad person if I did break these rules. Why is it so difficult for people to obey British laws?

 

[Captain Nemesis]

The basis of historical fact and precedent is a good basis for laws.

Do you have a date in mind, to which, if you could, you would roll back all our laws and sanctions, disallow all changes subsequent to that date, and forbid any more changes ever?

Saudi Arabia and Kuwait are barbaric, backward countries that do not have the rule of law

They do, actually.

You might not like their rule of law (oddly, given how keen you are on outrageously harsh penalties for lawbreakers), but have them they certainly do .

I would be a bad person if I did break these rules

If you think that someone doing exactly the same thing in a UK living room as someone in a Denver,CO living room makes the former a "bad person" but not the latter then you have a very different idea to me of what really makes someone a "bad person".

Why is it so difficult for people to obey British laws?

Why do you like some people who do, and are therefore bad people?