tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post2567402507420770593..comments2024-03-25T20:06:39.794-05:00Comments on Grits for Breakfast: Parking case study: Promoting obedience to law through less enforcement, greater facilityGritsforbreakfasthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10152152869466958902noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-60755706009774598552010-07-23T05:49:40.817-05:002010-07-23T05:49:40.817-05:00Not to my knowledge, Donald, though some have swit...Not to my knowledge, Donald, though some have switched to no-fault.Gritsforbreakfasthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10152152869466958902noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-25430085371980377342010-07-22T20:21:20.858-05:002010-07-22T20:21:20.858-05:00Has any state yet implemented your pay-at-the-pump...Has any state yet implemented your pay-at-the-pump scheme? Inquiring minds wanna know!Don Dicksonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04216181226322913663noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-23133906731072757772010-07-22T19:05:32.470-05:002010-07-22T19:05:32.470-05:00We do need to get away from the criminal/prohibiti...We do need to get away from the criminal/prohibition paradigm. In health care, there's an interesting set of experiments going on around obesity. <br /><br />As a society, it would be great if we were less obese and therefore had fewer costly health problems to address. But we can't be standing over people and ordering them not to eat fries on penalty of...what exactly? So some companies (Disney is one) have started to experiment with the "default" option for side dishes. What if the default side dish with your burger was a sliced apple. Would people say "No" to the apple, and affirmatively order the fries? Apparently not. If a burger starts to come with a healthy side dish, people take it and eat it and are pretty happy about it. If you tell people you are going to punish them for eating fries, well, you can imagine the outcome there. Me, I love fries, but mostly I don't care that much and I love a sliced apple too. <br /><br />So there you go. You promote a social good not by forcing everyone to do something you think is right, but by giving them better options and seeing what happens.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-19484255367124880272010-07-22T15:49:57.451-05:002010-07-22T15:49:57.451-05:00Tim, that's exactly the kind of idea I'm s...Tim, that's exactly the kind of idea I'm suggesting. No harm to anybody and might even be some benefit. In your example, it seems like the only difference between "decorating" a bus stop and graffiti is permission.<br /><br />As for the idea of voting, along those lines I heard an <a href="http://gritsforbreakfast.blogspot.com/2007/09/grading-graffiti-and-what-do-youth-want.html" rel="nofollow">interesting suggestion</a> awhile back was having folks "grade" graffiti, creating two-way dialogue between graff writer and public. Don't know if it'd be workable or popular, but it's a thoughtful proposal.Gritsforbreakfasthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10152152869466958902noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-71966981558837715532010-07-22T14:29:50.615-05:002010-07-22T14:29:50.615-05:00The graffiti issue is interesting to me because we...The graffiti issue is interesting to me because we have the "adopt a bus stop" program where CapMetro gives people almost free reign to clean and decorate bus stops.<br /><br />Why not go one step further and invite taggers to decorate them? Perhaps even make it into a competition where the public votes on which tags they like best to encourage ever more artistic tagging.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com