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  • Which laws would you question rather than blindly obey?
  • glasgowdan
    Free Member

    Just because you’re told something’s illegal doesn’t mean you shut off your own powers of thought and obey…

    For me, the BBC tax, aka TV License. Disregarding the fact it’s a law to have one to watch live tv, “just because it is”, I genuinely don’t agree with the power this puts in the hands of the law to demand one for watching other channels. It’s just plain bizarre. I won’t financially support the BBC for many reasons and believe it’s existence has gone on for far too long.

    Anything else?

    bedmaker
    Full Member

    “Hard hats must be worn on this site at all times”

    Watching the guys gardening in the sunshine next door today with their hats on and hi vis.
    It’s pathetic really. No room for common sense whatsoever.

    yossarian
    Free Member

    I’m not sure I blindly follow any law. Not knowingly.

    I’ve deliberately and thoughtfully ignored many laws over the years. Generally I follow my own moral compass and refreshingly it seems to be fairly well harmonised with statute law. Where there are differences I put my hood up, don’t draw attention to myself and do as I wish.

    As do many I’d imagine.

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    glasgowdan
    Free Member

    Nice to hear a couple of reasoned opinions. Just waiting for the other side to come along!!!

    P-Jay
    Free Member

    I don’t watch much on the BBC these days, but I’m glad it exists – it keep the commercial channels ‘honest’.

    I tend to question most things legal or otherwise, I’m disappointed that in recent years we’ve blinded accepted “guilty until proven innocent” for some crimes because it’s hard to prove guilt. Motoring offences mainly.

    I’m concerned that some serious crimes are proven by weight of accusation rather than evidence. (It won’t make me popular to spell that one out).

    I think most drug laws are ludicrous, dangerous and reactionary.

    pondo
    Full Member

    Well, the TV licence thing isn’t really “just because”, is it? It funds the finest independant broadcaster on the planet and represents bloody good value for me, but of course YMMV.

    grum
    Free Member

    “Hard hats must be worn on this site at all times”

    Pretty sure that’s not a law. Just an inflexible interpretation of health and safety regulations.

    n0b0dy0ftheg0at
    Free Member

    I’m not going to wait indefinitely at red traffic lights, because my bike won’t trigger a change to green.

    thecaptain
    Free Member

    ^ that’s not the law either, if the light is not functioning properly you can go through it.

    kayak23
    Full Member

    Footpaths*.
    If I feel I am harming nobody or nothing, I’ll ride my bike on one.
    I feel I am considerate and aware of others.

    *That is rights of way footpaths, and for that matter, paved footpaths.

    thecaptain
    Free Member

    Law banning tandems in Japan was one I broke on a near-daily basis when living there. Home brew was another I broke a good many times. Aren’t so many stupid laws in UK it seems.

    I do cycle through red lights when it suits me, and also past “cyclist dismount” regularly but I’m not sure if the latter is actually law.

    sc-xc
    Full Member

    No doubt this will qualify me as ‘the other side’…

    But BBC well worth the £12 or so per month.

    I happily pay for Sky, Netflix, Spotify, Prime…I could do without these. I would happily pay BBC though.

    suburbanreuben
    Free Member

    But BBC well worth the £12 or so per month.

    Worth it for Radio 4 alone!

    edhornby
    Full Member

    Stupidest law in the UK? First past the post, time for PR

    davidtaylforth
    Free Member

    Car tyre tread depth is one I can’t be arsed with.

    CaptainFlashheart
    Free Member

    Hunting Act 2004 (c 37)

    (Lights blue touch paper. Retires to safe distance.)

    davidtaylforth
    Free Member

    😀 good one

    kayak23
    Full Member

    Killing hunters?
    😉

    mattyfez
    Full Member

    Car tyre tread depth is one I can’t be arsed with.

    7inch wide slicks on a car are great in the wet. :0

    ninfan
    Free Member

    Treason Act 1351

    brakes
    Free Member

    paying income tax.
    paying so much for beer in the pub. criminal.

    somafunk
    Full Member

    Pretty much all drug laws are unenforceable and i have absolutely no qualms about disregarding them in my opinion, there’s plenty of other laws i have no time for either.

    Don’t be a dick is pretty much the only law you need to follow, If you ever ask yourself “Am i being a dick?”…….then you most probably are and should apologise or change the situation so you are not being a dick.

    simple.

    hols2
    Free Member
    butcher
    Full Member

    I don’t like the fact that people ‘own’ the countryside. That we’re told where we can and cannot roam. I don’t understand how anyone can own significant chunks of the planet. No one has entitlement to that shit in my opinion. That’s why I’m such a rebel and occasionally wander off public footpaths.

    The BBC I kinda like for the fact that they’re not completely driven by commercialism and sales. Paying a tax in return for some honest content is not such a bad thing. However, I’m not really sure how much truth is in that these days. It’s a fine line.

    wiggles
    Free Member

    Cannabis laws are just stupid, even a lot of the police know that people get away with a lot because the police just take it off them and basically apologise for doing so and let them go off to buy/grow more.

    Nobeerinthefridge
    Free Member

    I don’t like the fact that people ‘own’ the countryside. That we’re told where we can and cannot roam. I don’t understand how anyone can own significant chunks of the planet. No one has entitlement to that shit in my opinion. That’s why I’m such a rebel and occasionally wander off public footpaths

    I do love a ‘chat’ with a landowner, generally always amazes me how uninformed they are with regards to access laws…. 😀

    jonnyboi
    Full Member

    Same sex marriage in Northern Ireland

    cheekyboy
    Free Member

    Since mastering levitation…………gravity its a **** myth !

    mikewsmith
    Free Member

    I don’t like the fact that people ‘own’ the countryside. That we’re told where we can and cannot roam. I don’t understand how anyone can own significant chunks of the planet. No one has entitlement to that shit in my opinion. That’s why I’m such a rebel and occasionally wander off public footpaths

    I’m the same but people get all upset about me wandering through their gardens and offices, it wrong people can own stuff like that.

    Xylene
    Free Member

    Holocaust denial – I find that there is a law making it illegal to deny something happened fascinating.

    kerley
    Free Member

    Drug laws
    By-laws in New Forest for no cycling on single track (if we are counting by-laws?)
    Speeding laws (on my bike)

    leffeboy
    Full Member

    No adblockers 🙂

    anagallis_arvensis
    Full Member

    The cub scout law

    jonba
    Free Member

    Speed limits. I’m only making good progress and an arbitrary limit sign can’t distinguish between different weather conditions and driving abilities.

    Nobeerinthefridge
    Free Member

    I’m the same but people get all upset about me wandering through their gardens and offices, it wrong people can own stuff like that

    Did these people get their gardens and offices handed through generations, ownership achieved through land grabbing and murder? Bravo!

    richmars
    Full Member

    Did these people get their gardens and offices handed through generations, ownership achieved through land grabbing and murder? Bravo!

    So ownership is ok if you buy it?

    kerley
    Free Member

    Did these people get their gardens and offices handed through generations, ownership achieved through land grabbing and murder?

    Some of them probably did. How do you know which ones though? (same question applies to owners of countryside). Is there a list where I can look up how each person acquired their land so I can decide whether it was ethical and walk across it or not?

    Drac
    Full Member

    Duke of Northumberland did.

    timber
    Full Member

    Curious, do those that buy land look after it any different to those that inherit it? Both look to earn an income from it, however good or bad they may be at it.

    Sticking with the land theme, laws regarding commons are unfathomable and barely written. It’s possible to own land and have absolutely no say how it’s kept.

    sadexpunk
    Full Member

    on the bbc subject, i too agree id happily pay for content that i want (6 music), and that the moneys worth it to a lot of people, but i dont agree that you should have to pay the bbc if you dont want to use their services. if youre happy to just access ‘all channels other than bbc’ then they shouldnt make money from that.

    FWIW i despise the bbc’s tory bias and would happily veto them altogether if it wasnt for 6 music.

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