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The generalization of what you're saying here would ban trombones, because someone can get drunk and play them at 3AM. Pre-crime is a poor basis for law.


There is no alternative to a trombone making noise, but silent cars that get you from A to B at whatever speed you desire very much do exist.

That said, I have no issue at all with loud cars existing, as long as nobody that's annoyed by them ever has to hear them. They shouldn't get a license plate for public roads though.


The topic of discussion is a car which may be loud, but may also be quiet, or at least, makes the normal amount of noise.

This is much like a trombone. Don't run the car loud off the highway, and things are fine. Don't play the trombone in the middle of the night. Simple.


Why is being loud on the highway necessary when there is an alternative (driving a quiet car)? There are people and animals living close to highways, some of them longer than either the highway or your loud car have existed.

Cars also have the tendency to sometimes go outside and move from place to place quite rapidly, creating the potential to wake or otherwise disturb thousands of people in a short timespan. Try that with a trombone!


Nobody mentioned trombones. This discussion is about automobiles.


Do you have difficulty generalizing in general, or just in this specific case?


That's the same logic that mass murder supporters use to justify the sale of assault rifles to the general public in the USA


"mass murder supporters"... I'm pro gun control and that's weird language and logic even for me.

I can't have reasoned discussion with that kind of dogmatic mindset.


Sure, that makes sense, I guess. Since I do support the sale of semiautomatic weapons to the general public, unlike genocide supporters such as yourself. Every government which commits genocide begins by confiscating weapons from the public, after all. So that must be what you want.

I'm kind of joking, I consider gun-control advocates to be sincere, but tragically mistaken. I just figured your insane hyperbole deserved the same.


If my neighborhood had trombones making loud noises dozens of times every day, I'd be in favor of a ban on the sale of trombones, too.




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