vonhosen wrote:But if you are in a position of offering guidance to drivers and you aid, abet, counsel, or procure the offence of speeding, you are guilty of the like offence. That is why the IAM, RoADA etc are so resolute in their stance. They can't be seen to be doing the above & neither can their observers.
It's a bit like our approach to drug addicts. By counselling safe behaviour, we as a society believe we are doing something to help people who indulge in illegal activities, to try to increase their safety.
I suppose we could fine or imprison those who distribute clean needles. After all they are aiding or abetting the illegal activities of addicts.
It there's a get-out clause for helping drug addicts to carry out their illegal activities with a greater degree of safety, then perhaps there is a way to help drivers who break certain administrative laws so that they are safer and therefore less of a danger to society in general.
Prohibition never works. Or perhaps it will in our future increasingly totalitarian society.