STATE TROOPER: I stopped you because you were driving 79 in a 70mph zone.I don’t post much, so I will leave this go at this point. But as I said at the outset, I think this debate is really misplaced because it celebrates a rule and not an athlete.
The “core issue” is not consistency or inadvertence. To steal Westwind’s example, I consistently drive more than 4 mph over the speed limit. Everywhere. Every time. But I never go more than 9 mph over. I am a consistent and serial rule violator, as are a lot of other drivers. In fact, I never drive legally for this reason. Should I lose my license? Should the other drivers? Or should the police devote their resources to other issues and maybe just cite me now and again but not that often?
The problem with your position, to me, is that you have no evidence whatsoever supporting the utility of a rule prohibiting leaping. It’s nothing like bans on performance enhancing substances (even if the substances are taken by mistake or even if they don’t work), because those bans exist to deter behavior that is proven with evidence to aid performance. There is no such evidence here. So you are arguing that a rule should be enforced just because it is a rule. That is a fine argument if you believe that every person who goes 4 mph over should stop driving.
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DRIVER: I was going the same speed as everyone else!
STATE TROOPER: Ever go fishing?
DRIVER: Yes, every chance I get.
STATE TROOPER: Ever catch all the fish?
Just because a rule is not enforced 100% of the time does not change the fact that it is illegal. Just because the rule does not make sense, used to be different, you feel it should be changed, or provides no "utility" does not change the fact that it is illegal. Stay within the rules and this is never an issue. Get caught and suck it up. You were in the wrong.
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