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Originally Posted by 320touring
"Jaywalking" laws crack me up!
I've seen it extensively in Eastern European countries. Personally I dont see the point in such laws- It removes the "Darwinian" element from the sport of crossing the road.
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IMO jaywalking laws aren't as much to protect the lives of peds, but to protect innocent drivers from hitting morons. I mean sure, it would be nice to have certain DNA sequences eliminated from the gene pool, but I'd prefer that my car is not the means by which this is done. Even if I was obeying every single law, and the pedestrian jumped out from behind a bush right into my headlights, then I still get punished for unintentionally causing someone's death, if not by the court, then by my conscience. I killed a moron, but still a human being.
Yes, the police sometimes get anal about catching jaywalkers, like arresting someone for crossing an empty road. But the line has to be drawn somewhere: If they were to allow people to cross when the nearest car is 500m away, then way shouldn't they when the car is 300m away? 100m? 10m?
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