My dad encourages that I make stupidity a crime that can be punishable by law. The fine would be ten cents, paid to the person who discovered the crime. Though this would be a difficult law to enforce, I can see the merit in passing it.
This would encourage people to think before they speak, since most unintelligent comments are voiced before the speaker has a chance to think about what they said. The fine isn't enough to be a crippling amount of money, but those dimes add up after repeated offenses.
Because there would be no way to prove that someone said something stupid (other than by the accounts of eyewitnesses), people would easily be able to duck out of payment. This means that making people pay the fine would be a difficulty, but simply calling people out on their idiocy might help to remedy part of the problem.
As a plus, it's such an insignificant amount of money that the government would never have to be involved, unless they're the ones paying the fines.
Imagine the marvelous new world! Pocket change passing from one person to the next; politicians losing money by the truckload. Those ridiculous infomercials losing so much money that they're forced to go out of business! People would double-check everything for errors. We'd live in an age of reasoning and logic. No one would blurt out idiotic phrases on accident; our country would be that much quieter, that much less disruptive.
This law would herald the arrival of a new age for mankind.
1 comment:
i agree with this law. It would save alot of people from getting themselves in trouble. So many people don't think and its not even just stupid things alot of it is just mean dumb unneeded comments. I agree with making that a law. i may break it every once in awhile but not often.
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