Because British people need rules.
You can't say "drive carefully because if you don't we'll nick you" because you'll just end up in a row about what is or is not careless and why it was different this week to last week. People who scream bias and victimisation, police state and all the rest of the garbage they spew when their chosen behaviour is criticised.
When I was prone to driving like 'carelessly' and getting nicked for it, one sometimes accepted it, sometimes whined about the nasty police enforcing the law, and even complained about the injustice of getting prosecuted for the same thing 5 times without a shred of irony. But whoever thought about whining to a newspaper, or arguing about the definition of "careless" or any of the rest of the s***e that the entitled of today specialise in?
So one has to write rules in much the same way that you explain to a 2 year old about eating vegetables; Slowly, with small words, with no conceivable ambiguity or doubt and with no need for judgement on the part of the two year old.
Otherwise we'd have just the one rule which said "don't be a t*** on the roads" and nick everybody who was.
Last edited by: No FM2R on Sun 18 Oct 20 at 18:30
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