Stupidity

[James Deuce]

http://xtramsn.co.nz/news/0,,3882-3652434,00.html

So 10% of last years death toll was due to stupidity.

If 12.5% was due to speeding, will we be seeing an anti-stupidity campaign any time soon?

Will Spuchucka realise his dream of being able to arrest people for "criminal stupidity"?

Am I stupid?

Stay tuned.......

[Hitcher]

Making stupidity a criminal offence?? I'm doomed, living as I do within two standard deviations of the stupidity mean. Bugger that bell curve!!!

[Hooks]

So 10% of last years death toll was due to stupidity.

If 12.5% was due to speeding, will we be seeing an anti-stupidity campaign any time soon?


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The only anti-stupidity campaign that would work would be deemed stupid by the bureaucrats who are there to ensure it gets enforced, and so it would collapse under a pile of compounded stupidity only to be resurrected as an election campaign platform by Winston Peters who would then force an inquiry into the fact that it never got off the ground in the first place. Then again I could wrong ... or stupid !! .... or both ....

[Pwalo]

Jim

There was an interesting article on one of the Brit sites (I think MCN)that was also suggesting that most accidents were caused by simple inattention (I think something like 33%). Guess you could say that was pretty stupid.

The same article also claimed that something like 12% of accidents occured over the speed limit and that most accidents were at much slower speeds. Suppose that's the people who weren't paying attention and jumped on the brakes.

Just imagine legislating for stupidity. Can you use temporary stupidity as a valid legal excuse? Can you be mildly stupid? Is stupidity inherited, or learnt? Is there a gender difference? The lawyers and sociologists will love it. And LTSA.

[FROSTY:Me]

Somebody in a motorcycle mag a few years ago followed that line of logic.
He argued that as only 5% of bike accidents and fatalities happen at over 100mph that clearly that is a safe speed to travel at.
He suggested that we should legislate for all bikes to travel at 100mph on the open road and 60mph in suburban areas.

[toads]

it's a bit like saying most fatal accidents involve people isn't it?, the point I'm making is stupidity should be a criminal offence, but then at some point in our lives we would all get locked up!!, Education and compulsory training with regard to motorvehicles is the key.

[Hitcher]

Education and compulsory training with regard to motorvehicles is the key.

Sounds blindingly obvious to everybody except the LTSA and the politicians we elect to govern us.

[toads]

Sounds blindingly obvious to everybody except the LTSA and the politicians we elect to govern us.

why do we elect them by the way, just curious

[Hitcher]

why do we elect them by the way, just curious

A most excellent question. I guess because we can?

[James Deuce]

why do we elect them by the way, just curious

Because we fail exceed the basic requirements for not being labelled stupid. Also the people that want to be politicians are all a bit suspect. Anyone who wants to be a politician should immediately be banned from ever holding an elected office. Including the SPCA board.

We should return to democratic principle, nominate 120 community members for parliament each and see who tops the votes. Then they should select 30 people from the 120 to be cabinet members and assign the 30 lowest polling members instead, with the lowest scoring person as PM. Then you end up with people who do the minimum to get by, which means less screwing aorund with stuff that already works.

[toads]

Because we fail exceed the basic requirements for not being labelled stupid. Also the people that want to be politicians are all a bit suspect. Anyone who wants to be a politician should immediately be banned from ever holding an elected office. Including the SPCA board.

We should return to democratic principle, nominate 120 community members for parliament each and see who tops the votes. Then they should select 30 people from the 120 to be cabinet members and assign the 30 lowest polling members instead, with the lowest scoring person as PM. Then you end up with people who do the minimum to get by, which means less screwing aorund with stuff that already works.

Jim, I hereby nominate you , go for it, I am truly sick and tired of our incompetant overpaid fatcat politicians who have no link to the real world we have to grind our way along in everyday, I sure as hell didn't elect the current government, I hate their social policies , and the political correctness, that 99% of us see through, the emperor definately is stark naked! there I've said it. I'm such a bad girl

[Marmoot]

If 12.5% was due to speeding, will we be seeing an anti-stupidity campaign any time soon?....

Are you outta your mind???? Do you really want Guvmint to start driver training program???
Everybody knows driver training will only encourage people to drive faster and kill themselves!!!

(friggin stupid guvmint.... )

[Jackrat]

why do we elect them by the way, just curious

I havn't even bothered for the last few elections.
I've been watching an endless line of poli's saying the same thing over and over since the early seventys and seeing the same result each election.
Yeah their all gonn'a do some thing about crime,their all going to improve education,and the current situation is always the last Gov'ts fault.
If you don't vote you've wasted your vote,if you do vote your not going to get what you hoped you were voting for.
Bloody stupid system!!

[What?]

Can't imagine any anti-stupidity legislation happening, coz the legislators themselves are stupid, though not stupid enough to legislate against themselves. The only people stupidder than the pollies are the LTSA, and they don't quite get to make laws. God help us if the pollies give them the right to do it, though...

[SPman]

No Matter Who You Vote For
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