Old 12-28-08 | 04:11 PM
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Originally Posted by StephenH
The problem is not laws or lack thereof. Laws don't do any good if you have widespread disregard of them anyway. The problem is public attitudes, and changing that is a trick in itself.
But you won't change those attitudes because there are morons raising morons.

The problem is that there is very little chance of being caught so people think nothing of doing it. The punishment should reflect the possibility of getting caught. And public service announcements something to the effect of "Yeah you think we probably won't catch you but if we do......"
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