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Re: Reasonable Speed Limit



I've always figured that nature will tell you when you're going too fast.
Either by scaring the living bejeezus out of you, or by doing the Darwin
dance.

WARNING!  Lecture ahead.  Read at your own risk!

In fact, being an old philosophy major, I can't help but point out a
"reasonable speed limit" is almost an oxymoron.

Reason is that aptitude that determines in the Now what, according the
all of the input you're receiving, and then balancing them carefully, 
what is the best course of action.

Naturally since the input changes constantly (i.e. road conditions, 
weather, traffic, visibility, and etc.) what is reasonable is in a constant 
state of flux from moment to moment.

Thus, to impose a speed limit that is inflexible, i.e. does NOT adjust to 
conditions whatsoever, but is static, is not and never can be reasonable,
only LOGICAL.  There's quite a difference.  You can end up anywhere you
want with logic; the initial conditions might be true, but from there you
can end up way off base in a really short time.

STRONGLY suggest that we are all capable of rational , reasonable 
behavior, are self-correcting and ultimately responsible for our own
actions, and what do you get?

To pass an extremely excessive number of laws to inhibit/control human
behavior is to STRONGLY suggest that we are all robotic, non-thinking,
non-feeling idiots.  Bathe our children in that attitude and what do you
get in the next generation?

No wonder things are going completely to hell.

OK, OK, that's my lecture for today.  Feel free to flame...




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