EligibleDecoy
Joined 3 years ago
Joined 3 years ago
EDIT: I like qwertox’s answer best
This is the crux of the conflict current society has with children. Children are used as political pawns (but think of the children!) rather than being a focus of society. Even here on HN you see some posters assume a 12 year old can’t understand right or wrong (12 year olds absolutely know when to lie, thus implying they think they know when some things are wrong).
If society respected children for who they are I think we could get a lot further. Thankfully it seems we are going that direction with the addition of more “free range” laws and general acceptance that children are people, with vastly more agency than society currently assumes they have.[1]
1 - source: has kids
I think the actual problem is that when compared to other cars in their category these kei trucks do have abysmal safety standards such as no airbags or crumple zones. Which is because there isn’t a mini truck category in the US. Basically all pick up trucks are the same category.
The point about older cars still on the road is a valid point though, cars made before 1998 didn’t require airbags so if they can still be registered then the kei trucks should too.
IANAL but it seems highly absurd to give qualified immunity to government officials broadly violating at least the 1st amendment and justifying the arrest using terms that violate the 5th amendment. How can you arrest someone for requesting information?!?
[1] https://www.theusconstitution.org/news/reporters-rights-roll...
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