Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!houxm!hogpc!hogpd!jrrt From: jrrt@hogpd.UUCP (R.MITCHELL) Newsgroups: net.flame Subject: Re: radar vs. breathalyzers Message-ID: <291@hogpd.UUCP> Date: Wed, 29-Feb-84 14:38:26 EST Article-I.D.: hogpd.291 Posted: Wed Feb 29 14:38:26 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 2-Mar-84 08:32:51 EST Lines: 29 dalcs!y4101 asks in reference to a "stone-cold sober" speeder who was caught on an otherwise empty road and was complaining that the police should have concentrated on the potential drunks instead of him: >Hey! What is so God-like about you that you are above the law... I'd be more interested in the answer to the inverse (?) of that question (i.e., What is so God-like about the law that it is above you?). Given that cops exist, and that a driver's license is in effect a contract with Society to obey its traffic laws in return for the privilege of using its roads, then indeed, the original correspondent has no grounds for complaint -- everyone is accountable for their own actions and should accept the punishment they have coming when a transgression is uncovered. For the record: I often speed, but only when I feel it is appropriate to do so. I've gotten my fair share of tickets, too, indicating that a few police officers have disagreed with my judgement. That's OK, they're doing what they're being paid to do. If I have any grounds for a complaint, it is with the political structure that refuses to allow a person to have FULL responsibility for his/her actions. I guess Rational Anarchy is just an idle dream... Rob Mitchell {allegra, ihnp4}!hogpd!jrrt Es un entreverado loco, lleno de lucidos intervalos. (He is a muddled fool, full of lucid intervals. *Don Quixote*)