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It’s why we can’t have good things. Someone will abuse the privilege.

Just earlier we had a post about people pulling the emergency brakes on NYC subway cars. For decades it was fine. Suddenly people are causing some chaos.

That’s about it. People will exploit weaknesses and we all lose.

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I don't think they'll remove emergency brakes. I think they'll beef up CCTV and enhance patrols so they can respond quickly next time it happens.

So everyone now is surveilled en masse and patrolled by agents of the state, great solution. Is that really what we want?

In the article I read, the suspect exited the carriage and went down an employees only tunnel. Those sorts of tunnels seem like a place it's OK to put CCTV, since the general public doesn't even use them.

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