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To: Future Snake Eater
Driving faster than the mandated speed limit is not necessarily reckless.

That is true. However, I don't think one needs to be "reckless," a rather strong word, to be "not sufficiently concerned with the harm I might do."

Driving is a matter of habits, and if people develop the habit of exceeding the speed limit, passing unsafely, or failing to stop at stop signs, they are a threat to others.

It comes down to whether a person chooses to think of herself first, or to consider others first, even at a cost to self. Driving the speed limit, as a rule, does no harm to the self, and it decreases the risk of harm to others.

20 posted on 03/06/2010 5:31:18 AM PST by Tax-chick (Aw, CUSSWORDS!!!)
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To: Tax-chick

All that is true, but “sin” still doesn’t come into it. Moderation in all things, right?

I can drink a beer or two without being a drunkard, and I can go 10-20mph over the limit at 3am in the New Mexico desert without being a hazard, and I can drive through a red light that refuses to change at midnight at a completely empty intersection (that one has happened to me on several occasions).

It’s all about applying some common sense and judging the individual situation.


21 posted on 03/06/2010 5:45:57 AM PST by Future Snake Eater ("Get out of the boat and walk on the water with us!”--Sen. Joe Biden)
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