That's the way it is supposed to work here too, but it doesn't. You
can give boater education classes and require licenses or certificates
until you are blue in the face - a jackass is a jackass regardless.
If you don't enforce the laws that are presented in the class, then
what's the point?

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Jackasses come in two basic varities. First is the deliberate jackass-
the guy who really does know better but insists on playing the craphead
anyway. Education won't do anything for the deliberate jackass. The
second is the ignorant jackass- the guy who isn't out to see what he
can screw up in the world, and would change his ways if he knew better.
Promoting boater education will reduce the number of ignorant
jackasses, and therefore make a dent in the total number.