tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8441439.post7418265112589914725..comments2023-11-19T17:31:49.939+00:00Comments on Bristling Badger: keep death off the roadsUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8441439.post-76618992286416642212009-01-23T12:51:00.000+00:002009-01-23T12:51:00.000+00:00Peter, I'm tempted to be flippant and say there's ...Peter, I'm tempted to be flippant and say there's been more Glastonbury births than deaths, whereas motorway pile-ups don't have a net gain in human life.<BR/><BR/>But yes, you're right that there's probably a major difference in numbers of deaths per day in Glastonbury than deaths per day on Somerset motorways due to speeding.<BR/><BR/>However, drug dealers don't kill people the way speeding drivers do. The dealers supply the means of killing to people who take a small, conscious risk to their own health. In that, they're no more guilty than travel agents who sell ski-ing holidays.<BR/><BR/>The victims of speeders didn't choose for the speeder to do it.<BR/><BR/>So, as I said above, it's about the difference between the right to risk your own health and the right to risk someone else's. <BR/><BR/>And just a word on the particular case mentioned in the post. Whilst those guys were convicted of intent to supply, it was accepted in court that they had pooled funds with a couple of friends and the only 'supply' intended was to those friends. <BR/><BR/>Fucking their lives over - they'll lose jobs, be banned from all sorts of future employment - as well as costing the state a six figure sum is hardly proportionate or justifiable.merrickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10959849087751101034noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8441439.post-80681319553857631352009-01-22T13:10:00.000+00:002009-01-22T13:10:00.000+00:00But fairly often there will be a death at Glastonb...But fairly often there will be a death at Glastonbury festival due to an overdose. Probably more often than somebody would die in a speeding collision in Somerset while people are on their way to the festival. <BR/><BR/>So if you're looking it purely on public safety grounds, it's reasonable for the police to target dealers.peterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01772849039547798229noreply@blogger.com