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From: jb@x.UUCP (Jim Burnett)
Newsgroups: net.flame,net.legal
Subject: Re: Driving as a right or privilege / "for your own good"
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Date: Wed, 16-Oct-85 19:02:35 EDT
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Posted: Wed Oct 16 19:02:35 1985
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Driving as a right not a privilege?  That is one of the most absurd 
statements I have heard in a long time.  You think just because you
are of legal age and can somehow procure an automobile, you should
be allowed to travel on PUBLIC highways.  Wrong...wrong...wrong.
A car is a weapon just like a firearm and should be licensed and
should be controlled in the same way anything that is dangerous to the public
is.  If you get "a few speeding tickets and don't pay them" you should
have your driving license revoked.  Not only are you endangering the
public at large by high speed driving, but you are too immature to get
in and either pay them or have your day in court.  If this happens to you
then you deserve whatever the authorities do to you.   Maybe by taking
a taxi to work and having a few hard earned dollars go to that you might
learn the errors of your ways and behave like an adult behind the wheel
rather than a cowboy.

As for motorcycle helmets, I have two thoughts.  One, any motorcycle rider
crazy enough to get on the highway without a helmet on deserves to have
his brains splattered on the pavement.  I, for one, don't believe that
someone who rides without a helmet has any brains so it wouldn't be
much of a mess :-).  The second thing to remember is that when some
clown gets out there without a helmet and kills himself, the insurance
industry bears the brunt of the financial burden.  They don't like this
so they pass the costs on to the customer.  That means that I have to
pay higher costs because some bozo cna't be bothered to have his "rights"
restricted.


Jim Burnett