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Except when the camera is in the policeman’s hand and when they run the training courses you mean?

Yes it does

Given that they need to police by consent, they very much need that MoRaL aUtHoRITy to do tHeIr JoBs

The basis for the rationale for putting up speed cameras depends on the police to act with an unquestionable moral authority.

By acting with inconsistent moral principles they demonstrate their stated and genuine motives differ which undermines the moral authority they need to police by consent.

Once?

Good. Speed cameras are an abominable hypocrisy. The claim that they’re there because safety is important is undermined by the total lack of action Devon and Cornwall police take against actual unsafe drivers.

I drove past a police officer standing with a speed camera recently at 20mph with another car driving less than two feet from my bumper.

Had I been speeding I’d have gotten a ticket, meanwhile the police watch this actually dangerous driver sail past them without taking any action.

Half a mile later I have to drive onto the wrong side of the road around a lorry parked on a corner, with almost no visibility of oncoming traffic.

Their moral authority is destroyed and their pretence shattered by their own inaction and ineffectiveness.

So tear down the speed cameras if it highlights their fiction. Devon and Cornwall police are great at many things. Traffic is not one of them.

This is why I use waterfox

The reason is because of the bias in the studies themselves.

For example, there’s more studies showing that internet addiction is bad for teenagers because more studies have been run on teenagers.

Addiction of any kind of harmful to all age groups. The ways in which it impacts people depends on their life circumstances. For example, older people are more likely to lose a job or a marriage due to addiction than a teenager is, that’s not because of the nature of their addiction.

The simplest explanation is that some teenagers are depressed or otherwise struggling and turn to social media and internet because that’s what they have to help them cope. It’s a natural correlation, this study is saying that we don’t have the evidence to imply causation.

It’s easy for some people, especially those unfamiliar with online activities and particularly those who don’t value online activity, to see the correlation and blame. This is really helpful as it means they can avoid addressing the cause of the initial depression.