Reply to post: Re: Ludicrous lawsuit. No tangible injury.

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Bernd Felsche
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Re: Ludicrous lawsuit. No tangible injury.

"However then you're in the situation of arguing that laws aren't valid unless you can show the crime directly hurt someone, and that's a very slippery slope."

I did not and do not seek to excuse the violation of regulation.

There are already penalty provisions per vehicle without the necessity of a law suit. The statutory fine is up to $3750 per vehicle; in addition to making every vehicle actually comply with the rules.

When King Ælfred of Wessex laid down the Domboc, he defined a consistent penalty for each type of offence. This meant the end of arbitrary, sometimes vindictive penalties of what was to become Great Britain. It's the Rule of Law.

"Slippery slope" is btw a logical fallacy.

If there is no physical evidence required for prosecution; simply an allegation of a possibility of harm in the indefinite future, then you've built yourself a happy tyranny.

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