NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #31/NN_1992_31.iso/spool/rec/boats/8732

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From: [e-mail] (Jeff Huntington)
Newsgroups: rec.boats
Subject: Re: Radio Checks, was Coast Guard Boating
Date: 21 Dec 1992 18:05:42 GMT
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In article [e-mail], [e-mail] (goldstein,marvin) writes:
>
> The fact is that using the hailing channels for a radio is illegal no matter
> how short the call is.  Further, the checks I hear don't usually end with
> "loud and clear at ----."  Isn't this just one more instance of people
> picking and choosing what rules and laws they will obey?
>



Boy, this is a good way to start off a lively thread on whether people should
just blindly follow rules, or if they think of the reason and intent of the
rule and let that influence their actions. :-)


I surely can't say what is "right", but I know that I am in the latter camp.
My wife and I have debated this issue endlessly, usually as a result of my
doing something like stopping at a red light late a night (when there is no
traffic on the road at all), and then driving through the red light rather
than sitting there waiting for it to change.

I think it is a mark of an unthinking, follow like sheep, mindset to sit at a
traffic light with no one around waiting for it to turn green.  My wife does
not agree.  :-)  She believes rules are rules, and should always be followed.
I beleive it is impossible to write a rule that can tell you what is the best
thing to do in every situation, and so we have the option of thinking and
deciding when the rule applies and when it doesn't.  And, the discussion goes
on and on.  ;-)

I think we have stumbled on to the same kind of thing with radio checks.

Jeff Huntington