It doesn't matter where I live, I don't have any twisted "loyalty" to someone that is recklessly driving down a street or highway endangering innocent lives. Should I be "loyal" to someone that very well might be drunk or high on drugs and not report it to the police?
First, minding my own damn business doesn't equate to having some "twisted loyalty." Second, speeding doesn't equal endangering innocent lives. It just pisses you off so you want control someone else's business. Third, speeders are not necessarily drunk or high. If they're swerving, sure go ahead and report them.
So if you're driving down the freeway with your wife and small children and someone recklessly speeds by you at 90-100 MPH, you just ignore it?
See. There you go. You equate speeding with reckless driving. That's your opinion. It doesn't make it so. I bet you'd crap your pants on the Autobahn driving next to all those reckless speeders. But to answer your question, no, I wouldn't report it.
Public safety is MY business.
No. You just think it is because you like to control others' behavior.
I'd not only report you in a second, I'd stop and give the police officer the full details of your disrespect for your fellow human beings.
Well if you do that in Texas, the LEO will tell you to get your ass back in the car and be on your way. And if you did it at night, you'd likely get a gun in your face for endangering the LEO's life. They don't appreciate "helpful" citizens who try to interfere in their business of public safety.
Actually, I think you are. Aside from the occasional libertarian that I run into on here (usually in cop hating and of course pro dope smoking threads) the vast majority of people on FR believe in God. As I pointed out in an earlier post, God created the civil magistrate for a reason:
God established civil government to be an avenger who brings wrath upon those who practice evil. The civil government’s power to use the sword is legitimate in certain limited cases. The Bible has mandated that the power of the sword is to keep the peace, to protect those who do what is right. Civil rulers are said to be “ministers of God” similar to the way pastors are “ministers of God.” They are God’s “deacons” in their designated governments, one ecclesiastical and the other civil."
Either you're "on" the side of the guy recklessly driving down the freeway (you're on his side by not reporting him and allowing him to continue to be a threat to society with his disregard for human life) or you're not. There is no "middle ground". And please note: the keyword here is "reckless". I'm not going to waste my time or the police depts time calling in on some guy going 75 in a 60 UNLESS he almost runs me or someone else off the road while doing so. Heck, I've called in on guys that WERE doing the speed limit solely because it was obvious that they were DUI. You need to get your priorities straight there pardner; police officers are the good guys, irresponsible people aren't.