A Modest Proposal for Our Times

By | June 5, 2006
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Ravenwood has it all figured out:

You can ban cell phones if you want, but people are still gonna have accidents. The real problem with car accidents is the drivers. You ban drivers and the accident rate drops to zero almost immediately.

Or let’s go it one better even than that — just ban cars and then there will be nothing for the drivers to drive. This reminds me of one of the rarely considered upsides to abortion — aborted children never become smokers.

  • Jim Strickland

    On a somewhat more serious note, the book Freakonomics, by Levitt and Dubner, suggests that the real reason behind the drop in the crime rate of the last ten years or so is, in fact, Roe vs Wade. A whole generation of unwanted children, who are at high risk of becoming career criminals, and who would be reaching their criminal prime of life right now, were never born. Certainly food for thought.

    http://www.freakonomics.com/thebook.php

    -HH

  • https://www.blog.speculist.com Stephen Gordon

    We could take Ravenwood’s suggestion seriously and still keep our cars:

    https://www.blog.speculist.com/archives/000478.html