Michael Levin
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Second, if you actually look at the data, the car rental companies actually have a much better estimate because they actually look at the accident statistics and they'll say it's about 25 is really what you're looking for, right?
So theirs is a little better.
It's less arbitrary.
But in either case, what it's hiding is the fact that we do not have a good story
of what happened from the time that you were an egg to the time that you're this supposed adult, and what is the scaling of personal responsibility, decision-making, judgment?
These are deep, fundamental questions.
Nobody wants to get into that every time somebody has a traffic ticket.
And so, okay, so we've just decided that there's this adult idea.
And, of course, it does come up in court because then somebody has a brain tumor or somebody's eaten too many Twinkies or something has happened.
You say, look, that wasn't me.
Whoever did that, I was on drugs.
Well, why did you take the drugs?
Well, that was, you know, that was yesterday me.
Today, this is I'm right.
So we get into these very deep questions that are completely glossed over by this idea of an adult.
So.
So I think once you start scratching the surface, most of these categories are like that.
They're convenient and they're good.
You know, I get into this with neurons all the time.
I'll ask people, what's a neuron?