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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: Sat, 6-Jul-85 21:27:00 EDT
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>/* 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