Police court

I drove 91 where you were only allowed 50. On the motorway. Never in my life would I drive on 91 in a built-up area where you are only allowed 50. It was on a Saturday morning, almost a year ago, at work on E17 near Antwerp. No one was working that morning. 50 on the highway. Who actually decides that? What fucking idiots decide we are going to set the speed limit to 50 on the highway. Then there will be fewer traffic fatalities. Do you know how there will be even fewer traffic fatalities? If we set the working speed to 30. If we set the speed to 10 in built-up areas. And if we ban cars, there will be no more traffic fatalities involving cars. We had to ban life, then there would be no more deaths.

Today the wife of a colleague of mine had to appear before the police judge. She had driven through a red light. Scattered. Naturally dangerous, but also simply absent-minded. What do you do with that? I mean, you're not absent-minded on purpose. It's not the same as speeding through a red light. Yet apparently she receives the same punishment as someone who deliberately drives through a red light. Of course, anyone can say he or she was absent-minded. In any case, the fine was 50 euros. But apparently that is done times eight. I have no idea why, I'll ask my lawyer again. In addition, there was also a good 250 euros for the victim fund. And then a 15-day driving ban. I honestly don't understand that.

First, you have to ask yourself what our legal system wants to achieve with such punishments. If it is to ensure that someone is less distracted while driving, then I don't think such punishments will do much. Secondly, a fine is not the same type of punishment for everyone. For someone who earns very little and is having financial difficulties, 750 euros is a much greater punishment than someone who has half a million euros in his account. Thirdly, a driving ban for someone who has a partner is a lot less harsh than for someone who is alone.

I'm so pissed at that system. It is the first time in 28 years that I have had my driver's license that I have had to appear in a police court. Because I drove 91 on the highway. If they give me such a fine and a driving ban, will I suddenly start driving even better than I have in the past 28 years? With me it has a slightly different kind of effect. I have been driving around in traffic with much more stress since that letter from the police court. I'm constantly wondering how fast can I drive here, is there priority from the right, is a bicycle approaching at 40 km per hour, speed signs change from 70 to 90 back to 70 back to 90, ... it can drive you crazy if you constantly want to do everything right.

Shit happens, mistakes are made, everyone makes mistakes, no matter how hard you try to do everything correctly. And then there is free will. The illusion of free will. The fact that we do not make choices of free will. Our justice system is sick. People are sick. Many think that their happiness is their own merit. Many think that their success is their own merit. And it is precisely those people who will convince people in misery that their misery is their own merit. How low. Not your own merit. Life just happens. From the day you are born, everything is already determined. You are either lucky or not lucky with your DNA. You are either lucky or not lucky with the parents you have. You are either lucky or not lucky with the country you are born in. Choice is a shitshow. There is no choice. Then who chooses? Everything you are comes from your past, from your upbringing, from your DNA, from your ancestors, from the luck you have known or the bad luck you have known, etc. If everyone understood that, the world would become much milder.

Judges constantly see what misery is, but people have misery. And by trying to solve misery we create even more misery. By wanting to make the world a better place, judges create even more misery. I will be in dire straits if I get such a fine and driving ban. I then make a song about our backward constitutional state and how outdated it is. If our rule of law worked, if punishments worked, there would be fewer and fewer prisons needed. That's not the case, so it doesn't work. Maybe we should start counting suicides instead of road deaths. That also says something about our society. Maybe we should put cameras on every street corner that record every mistake you make. Every wrong move you make can then be punished. What a nice world that will be. Maybe that's what the scared white cowardly man wants, cameras everywhere so we can fight the bad. Everyone has bad in them. Everyone has darkness within them. Everyone makes mistakes. Let's forgive each other for we are all the same actors in a stupid game called life. There is no free will and there is no choice. Together we can look to make a better world, but that will not work by dividing the world into good and evil, right and wrong, beautiful and ugly, ... It is mainly the people who experience nothing in their lives who believe that success is their own merit. And people who run aground often no longer have a voice to be heard. People are way too good. It's time for people to make their voices heard. It's the people, it's you who make the world a mess. By not making your voice heard. It's not the politicians or the rich who are ruining the world, it's the ordinary people who don't open their mouths who are ruining the world. Wake up. Take the power back.

Fucking police court. Just noticed that judges actually don't earn that much per month. I was shocked by that. I think those people are mainly very frustrated about their wages.

If a punishment leads to us creating a better society, then I am in favor. Guilt, however, is something completely silly. It's no one's fault. Nobody. We are all equal on this planet. No one knows what we are doing here and our lives just happen to us. We are big egos if we keep telling ourselves that our success is our own merit. They are the biggest assholes on planet Earth. There's nothing more dangerous than people who want to make the world a better place. Start with yourself, start thinking about free will and merit, start meditating, discover yourself, your own darkness. A person is not absent-minded on purpose. Things like that just happen. Shit happens in life. Are we going to ban everything? Then we might as well forbid life. Peace out.

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