army1987 comments on Defeating Ugh Fields In Practice - Less Wrong

65 Post author: Psychohistorian 19 June 2010 07:37PM

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Comment author: [deleted] 11 December 2011 02:20:15PM 1 point [-]

the reason it won't take off with traffic or medication is that most people want to see wrong-doers punished more than they want to see less wrong-doing

I've heard that in some places they have deliberately unrealistically low speed limits because fines are a sizeable fraction of the municipality's revenues.