OH, I agree. OTOH, what are the chances you're going to get rear-ended hard enough to punt you all the way out into the intersection to get t-boned, assuming you have a firm foot on the brakes? If you're already stopped and they slam into you full speed, well then that's not likely the fault of the red light cameras, is it?
No, you're right.
I think that people fail to appreciate the unintended consequences of nanny-state thinking.
If I'm tooling along toward an intersection and the light changes, I'm going to make a judgement based on a lot of variables whether or not I stop or continue.
I suspect that the first blink of yellow will cause otherwise sensible drivers to slam on the brakes.
Adding another variable (a camera) that jacks up the pressure on my decision making doesn't, IMHO, make the intersection any safer.