The problem with increasingly burdensome laws and regulations is that there is a significant minority of vulnerable people out there whom are barely able to cope with the attendant responsibilities to society, owing to mental or physical ill-health, intellectual weaknesses, or other difficulties.
There are very few people from "good" areas in district courts.Some of these people are that way because nothing has ever been demanded of them. It is common in schools to see less demanded of kids who come from what the teachers see as difficult backgrounds. It kind of stands in their way of achieving.
What documents do you have to bring with you to an NCT centre before they'll test your car?
Are you suggesting that interacting with the State/ officialdom is the same when you can't read of write?Yes it all starts in school.
I dont recall there being many forms to be filled in connection with the NCT
Were you able to read them?I dont recall. However I am sure that I didn't have to complete them myself.
There are very few people from "good" areas in district courts.
We need to stop talking about socially deprived areas or economic black spots.
What defines those areas is that they are educational black-spots. Everything else flows from that. We also need to stop talking about how many people go to third level from those areas as if that is somehow the root cause of anything. We need to look at their educational attainment and attendance between the ages of 5 and 10.
Yes.Were you able to read them?
Are you suggesting that someone who is functionally illiterate can't tell the difference between a stop sign and a yield sign?Yes.
I can also read stop signs, yield signs etc. All of which I would have thought was necessary to drive safely.
So if someone suffers episodes of depression they shouldn't be driving, even though they have passed the same test and have the same licence and insurance as you and I? Maybe we should go back decades and start locking them up in secure institutions? Nice social empathy there. :mad:
Not necessarily.Dont you have to be reasonably literate to pass the Driver Theory test.
If they are not capable of independent living it sounds like they should be in an institution or some form of shared care in the community facility.
One of the reasons why we have "increasingly burdensome laws and regulations" is because there is a significant cohort of people who don't seem capable of observing norms (such as not littering or staggering around drunk screaming at 3 in the morning), so what was once a norm now becomes a law.
I just hope you don't have a bad episode in your own life.
Except none of this is about road safety nor about public disorder nor drunkenness.The reason we have laws and fines is that when someone is having a bad episode, they don't get into an unsafe car over the limit on drink, drugs or medication, and cause an accident that means their 'bad episode' affects more than just themselves.
I am happy about it, in fact I'd like to see more spent. Better that than what will be spent on welfare and courts and "free" legal aid and possibly prison for the rest of their life. Better that we spend more on early education and that person spend their adult life working and paying taxes.I am not happy that children who attend schools classified as DEIS get more taxpayers money spent on their education than my kids do.
In fact one of my children went to a school refused DEIS funding because it did not meet certain criteria. This refusal was accepted for 10 years until a new Principal was appointed. When he investigated he discovered that the school secretary had been entering incorrect data on a particular return. The school would have qualified if the information had been correctly entered. Second level education in this country is a mess.
What's benefit of clergy?
Are you talking about the ancient exemption from the law they enjoyed?
No way is that guy paying any fine. And the judge knows it. He gave him a whopping fine for the headlines. So the optics look good.
But there is no generally accepted definition of "can't pay". Does it mean that someone doesn't have the money, or would you include someone who doesn't have the money for the fine and food, or would you allow that and draw the line at someone who doesn't have the money for the fine and food and clothes. And shoes and schoolbooks, and a doctors appointment.
There is no such thing as "can't pay" in it's true sense. Just different standards.
....That would cost far more than most fines.
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