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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
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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*)