Path: utzoo!dciem!client1!schuck
From: schuck@client1.DRETOR.UUCP (Mary Margaret Schuck)
Newsgroups: ont.general
Subject: Re: Lawbreakers (was Radar Detectors (was Highway Driving Rules))
Message-ID: <1737@client1.DRETOR.UUCP>
Date: 17 May 89 11:43:52 GMT
References: <9584@watcgl.waterloo.edu> <3217@looking.UUCP> <3225@looking.UUCP> <264@sickkids.UUCP> <1942@yunexus.UUCP>
Reply-To: schuck@client1.dciem.dnd.ca (Mary Margaret Schuck)
Distribution: ont
Organization: D.C.I.E.M., Toronto, Canada
Lines: 32

In article <1942@yunexus.UUCP> landolt@yunexus.UUCP (Paul Landolt) writes:
>The difference is, in examples (2) and (3), by committing these offenses,

>you are deliberately preventing someone else from enjoying the benefits
>that could be made available to them had you NOT committed the offenses.
>
>	In example (1), If "I" chose to exceed the posted limit, AND 
>'slower' drivers stayed in the right-hand lane (where they BELONG), I would 
>not be preventing them from proceeding at their own pace.  


That's not true.  You have just classified all drivers into two classes;
law-breaking speeders like yourself and "slower" drivers (presumably the
law-abiding non-speeders).   Did it not occur to you that not all
non-speeders drive at the limit?  There are a number of vehicles that
legitimately do not drive at the full 100 km/h permitted, such as trucks on
grades, people in older cars etc.  There are also a large number of people
who are uncomfortable with the full speed limit and for reasons known best
to themselves choose not to drive at it.  They are legally permitted this
option.  By insisting that all non-speeders stay in the right-hand lane
"where they BELONG" you have denied law-abiding drivers going at the limit
the right to move at the rate they choose (since they will be stuck behind
the slower vehicles that are always present).  
And we all know what your reaction will be if you find a vehicle doing a
mere 100 in "your" lane.

Don't you think that there is something a little warped in reasoning that
denies the right of normal drivers to stay within the law so that *you*
can break it without being inconvenienced?


Mary Margaret.