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Originally Posted by Mazrim
Newspaper - $2, Whopper - $4, Cell Phone - $300-800. One of these three you will have on your person at all times and would not replace at will. Not a fair comparison.
I'm all for more enforcement on the idiots who constantly are looking at their phones instead of the road. People can't take care of themselves, so we need to help them get the picture.
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That was my point. They picked the one thing that costs a lot of money and is a neccesity for many people. But they also picked something with personal information, something that the police require a warrant to have in their poccession, just like a computer or records from your home. Except if this law goes through, then police are in poccession of something personal with no warrant.
I know people always laugh off the old "slippery slope" argument, but these are the exact kinds of laws that fall into that catagory.
"Hmm, we'll just make a new law that allows the police to act as judge jury and executioner on the side of the road towards drivers who blow a warning into a breathalizer"
"...and folks, we need this to get drunk drivers off the road"
''Yeah, drunk driving, it's brutal. Do whatever you need to do to deal with it!!!"
"Awesome, the public's okay with it"
"How about this? We would like to introduce a new law that allows us to take private property with personal information into our poccession for a day without a warrant for breaking a traffic law"
"....and folks, we need this to stop distracted driving"
"Yeah, distracted driving's brutal. Do whatever you need to deal with it!!"
"Holy ****, they went for that one, too!!!"
"Well, let's keep going."