Newsgroups: ont.general
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From: jdd@db.toronto.edu ("John D. DiMarco")
Subject: Re: Highway Driving Rules
Message-ID: <89Apr26.134028edt.9320@ois.db.toronto.edu>
Organization: University of Toronto, CSRI
References: <8904061731.AA21685@ellesmere.csri.toronto.edu> <400@hcr.UUCP>
Distribution: ont
Date: Wed, 26 Apr 89 13:40:24 EDT

In article <400@hcr.UUCP> larry@zeus.UUCP (Larry Philps) writes:
>As I though I understood it, the government should be passing, and thus
>enforcing, laws that reflect the desires of the majority of the population.

Egad! This is pretty scary! As a general principle, this could be disastrous.
Imagine if the majority of the population should decide that killing some 
minority group is ok....  

As for highway regulations: as I understand it, these laws are intended to 
reduce highway accidents. If the majority of the population should decide 
they don't like these laws, should they be changed? Would it be right to 
abolish speed limits if their abolition led to a much more dangerous highway
environment? Even if the majority of the population wanted their abolition?

>
>Larry Philps                             HCR Corporation
>130 Bloor St. West, 10th floor           Toronto, Ontario.  M5S 1N5
>(416) 922-1937                           {utzoo,utcsri,uunet}!hcr!larry

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