Screw Ageism
-It's not called "age discrimination" and/or "ageism"; it's called safety when people like this are tested for their driving skill. But that's not the case. Instead, people like George Russel Weller are negligently running people over. As much as I hate government intervention in our daily lives, something has to be done with people like George Weller.
posted by Anon. at
Tuesday, October 24, 2006
3 Comments:
Requirin the elderly to participate in more frequent drivers tests isn't age discrimination, it's merely a form of reducing the cost of obtaining information.
In other words, the organizations charged with enforcing road safety(I suppose preventing vehicular initiations of force, albeit accidental ones) would proactively reduce legal costs associated with age-induced accidents by recognizing biological fact: statistically, old age slows senses and hence perpetuates auto accidents.
There's a great mises.org story about this same line of reasoning:
http://www.mises.org/story/2282
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Anonymous, at 12:03 AM
Sorry about the typos, I forgot to hit "preview".
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Anonymous, at 12:07 AM
It's fine!
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Anon., at 7:53 AM
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