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On Mar 18, 4:38 pm, Adrian Godwin  wrote: > Another own-goal by the 'think of the children' lobby : > > http://www.fatallyflawed.org.uk/ > > (No, nothing to do with cycling, but plenty of parallels with helmet campaigns) > > -adrian

A poorly thought out, emotive, overly simplistic measure which is supposed to save lives (particularly those of "the children"); seems like a good idea to the stupid and the uninformed; even when it's explained that the measure is useless, some still claim that it "might still help, and besides it can't do any harm"; but further analysis shows that in actual fact the measure does cause harm, and therefore it costs lives rather than saving them.

isn't a group of utter fuckwits going round claiming that socket covers save lives (when they know that they actually cost lives) because they have some "secret" non-safety-related wish for them to be used as much as possible. Hence Crapman and co are quite happy to admit that socket covers are dangerous. As they would do with speed cameras if they didn't have a callous anti-motorist agenda which was more important to them than saving people's lives (BASTARDS).
 * Exactly* like speed cameras, then. The only difference is that there

(Note that the "owner" of URC, the fuckwit Crapman, didn't pull up the OP on posting "off topic". He only complains about "off topic" posts when the poster in question states an opinion that's contrary to his. In other words, the "off topic" thing is just another one of Crapman's excuses to attempt to censor his opponents, because he's too chicken to be honest and just say "I don't like you posting opinions that are different to mine, particularly regarding controversial topics".)