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To: glasseye

Being a motorcyclist myself, I KNOW we are often targeted by drivers and I do my best to keep my “space”. I am against helmet and seatbelt laws, but I have to draw a line when my desire to do something (talk on a cell phone) distracts me from my responsibility to you (not kill or injure you with my car).

So if I want to operate a piece of machinery that could plow into you at 120 mph with x gigajoules of energy, perhaps I have a responsibility about my condition when operating that machinery.

I don’t disagree with you about the insane pursuit of safety but I also consider myself a true conservative, a centrist, rightfully concerned about the balance of liberty and responsibility, or statism versus anarchy.


16 posted on 03/25/2015 2:36:50 PM PDT by trubolotta
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To: trubolotta
Being a motorcyclist myself, I KNOW we are often targeted by drivers...

What?

26 posted on 03/26/2015 6:45:01 PM PDT by Half Vast Conspiracy (!)
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