Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version nyu B notes v1.5 12/10/84; site acf4.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!mtuxo!mtunh!mtung!mtunf!ariel!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!tektronix!hplabs!pesnta!greipa!decwrl!decvax!genrad!panda!talcott!harvard!seismo!cmcl2!acf4!mms1646 From: mms1646@acf4.UUCP (Michael M. Sykora) Newsgroups: net.politics.theory Subject: Re: Social Order and Mayhem : Re to Cramer Message-ID: <2380087@acf4.UUCP> Date: Sat, 6-Jul-85 21:27:00 EDT Article-I.D.: acf4.2380087 Posted: Sat Jul 6 21:27:00 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 12-Jul-85 03:22:52 EDT References: <674@whuxl.UUCP> Organization: New York University Lines: 16 >/* baba@spar.UUCP (Baba ROM DOS) / 5:21 pm Jul 5, 1985 */ >If an arbitrary speed limit of 55 is empirically superior to no speed limit >in terms of aggregate fuel burned, aggregate accidental damage, and aggregate >time spent by people in transit (once accidents and jams are taken into >account), then it seems pretty clear that from a pragmatic point of view >the arbitrary speed limit produces more satisfactory results than no speed >limit, regardless of whether it was arrived at by science or chance. It isn't clear from a pragmatic point of view, because pragmatism is concerned only with means. Ends must be, at least in part, decided upon before means are considered. > Baba Mike Sykora