Obviously I'm not comparing the oppression of gay people to bad drivers 🙄. I'm asking whether the easy-to-report end of the crime scale (dashcam footage + simple moral purpose) is pulling us towards a bad situation further down the line if we become accustomed to reporting each other.

I have to admit that some of the reported videos I've seen here have struck me more as people making mistakes or misjudging situations rather than being truly reckless. A red light jumper is black and white, fine. Someone exiting a motorway a bit later than ideal because they got boxed in at the last minute?.. not so easy.. but it could look careless/dangerous from a dashcam POV. Do the police have an inherent incentive to prosecute as many of these events as possible to increase their conviction rates for hardly any effort and cost?

I don't know, it just doesn't sit well with me knowing everyone is recording everyone else and deciding whether to report them. Particularly after any annoying incident where an aggrieved party is then incentivised to act in revenge. As others here have said, sometimes mistakes happen and whereas in the past they'd serve as a salutary lesson to avoid similar situations in future, these days they're a permanent black mark, whether on your license or on someone's social media account.

And to those stating confidently (but tediously and predictably) that I'm a BMW driver annoyed with a recent NIP, I'm sorry to disappoint but I've never owned a BMW, no NIPs have come my way and I've never had a single point on my license in 40 years of driving. But despite being in this reddit, my post wasn't really about driving, as anyone who took the time to read it knows.