laura bush
Just because my sense of value is different from you doesn't make what I say, or me, stupid. There is nothing stupid in what I said. You really should consider what I said very carefully. I know I carefully consider everything I say. If anything is stupid, it is those who accuse others of being stupid simply because they have a different sense of value.
I value our Rights more than I value our Safety. Somebody (Thomas Jefferson?) once said: "Those who would surrender their Rights for Security deserve and get neither." If I valued my Safety more than I did our Rights, I would demand everybody be locked away for the sake of my safety, and to hell with their Rights.
It is entirely possible for one to pose a far greater endangerment to others while remaining within the speed limits than another who is carefully exceeding those speed limits. You weren't able to deny it, and you can't deny it.
We all pose some level of danger, in everything we do, to others. Even our mere existence poses a level of danger to others. Simply by existing, we pose the risk of pbutting along some highly contagious and deadly disease. But, under normal circumstances, we all pretty much pose the same level of risk to each other. So, in order to live our own lives with Liberty, we must trade off the risks, and allow others to live their lives.
Two safe drivers pose pretty much the same levels of risk to each other when they meet on the highway. Does one say the other can't drive because he poses a risk, does the other say the one can't drive because he poses a risk, or do they both accept the trade of risk and allow each other to drive?
As long as someone isn't doing something to excessively exceed the level of trade off of risk they pose to the other, I really don't give a flying fickle f*** what their doing.
If the speed limit on a lonely stretch of highway were 60 mph, and somebody were doing 120 mph, but not endangering the lives or property of anybody, I couldn't care less. But, if the speed limit were 40 mph on a crowded stretch of highway with a paraid in progress, and somebody were doing 35 mph, dispite the fact their within the posted speed limit, they'd still be endangering the lives of all those paraid goers, and should be prosecuted.
So, stick that in your pipe and smoke it.
