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From: mms1646@acf4.UUCP (Michael M. Sykora)
Newsgroups: net.politics.theory
Subject: Re: Social Order and Mayhem : Re to Cramer
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Date: Thu, 4-Jul-85 02:56:00 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jul  4 02:56:00 1985
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>/* orb@whuxl.UUCP (SEVENER) /  6:02 pm  Jul  2, 1985 */
 
>Although I cannot predict that *this particular speeder* will crash
>by exceeding the speed limit or by going as fast as he might given
>no speed limit, statistics can predict with a fair amount of certainty
>that when the average speed of *many people* is increased, there will
>be XX greater accidents and deaths.

Does this mean that we should make the speed limit 0, thereby eliminating all
traffic accidents?  Of course not.  But where do you draw the line?
Why 55?

If roads were private, these problems would be mitigated.  There might well
be roads with different safety factors.  Motorists could to some extent
choose the level of speed/risk appropriate for them.
 
>This confusion between *individual/particular* interests and the
>*average/collective* interests is peculiarly bred by capitalist ideology.
>Everyone is told that "anyone can become a millionaire".

This Alger Hiss mentality is not what libertarianism is about, at least for
me.  As I see it, libertarianism is about letting people do what they want
so long as they don't violate rights of others.  If what one want is to
become a millionaire, one is free to pursue such dreams.  Libertarianism
does not require such aspirations or even encourage them per se.

>             tim sevener  whuxl!orb

						Mike Sykora