This argument perfectly displays a red herring fallacy; diverting the argument away from it’s original point. If the argument attempting to be made is that “photo radar is lazy policing” it doesn’t add to your point to talk about bad drivers who aren’t speeders. If Blizzard’s point is to enforce the idea that photo radar’s aren’t a good form of policing, talking about other types of drivers that photo radar wasn’t designed to catch doesn’t add to the argument at hand, it only distracts from it. Photo radars were created and designed to catch people who speed. Diverting the topic to talk about how it doesn’t catch other forms of drivers is distracting from the original point. Referring that it doesn’t catch all forms of poor drivers doesn’t add to the “lazy policing” point he was attempting to make earlier. It’s not lazy policing to catch speeders with a device intended to catch speeders. It is also not lazy policing that it was not designed to catch poor drivers and, therefore, it doesn’t. …show more content…
The laws that we have today are enforced and police officers do, in fact, hand out tickets despite her claims that “machines hand them out”. Police officers still ticket people for speeding. Police officers still ticket people for poor driving. Photo radars are meant to be present and monitor traffic when an officer can’t. It allows police to be working and focusing on other areas of a city, rather than a location than sitting and waiting for a speeder to zip by so they can chase and ticket