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Automotive News & Views Should cell phone drivers be singled out?
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Replying to: fintail (Oct 18, 2006 11:55 am) What do you think that insurance is for? I guess you could argue that it places a burden on our health care system that gets spread out amongst all of us. Okay, the same can be said for obesity. Let's make that illegal. Pretty easy to identify the offenders, baggy close can only hide so much. Oh and something like 6,000 people die each year from skin cancer. Better make laying out at the beach or pool illegal. For a society that prides itself on freedom we have an inordinate fascination with laws.
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Replying to: tpe (Oct 18, 2006 12:04 pm) Still no answer about those liberties...
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Replying to: fintail (Oct 18, 2006 12:04 pm) Okay, I'll admit it. As Forrest Gump would say, "I'm not a smart man". But I really don't want sympathy or respect. What I want is to be able to exercise my own judgement in deciding what I should and shouldn't be allowed to do. That freedom is rapidly eroding in this country.
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Replying to: fintail (Oct 18, 2006 12:04 pm)
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Replying to: fintail (Oct 18, 2006 12:07 pm) I answered that one. As for insurance, tpe did a good job at that. If you are going to complain about those who don't wear seat belts you have to complain about those who engage in high risk activities.
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Replying to: snakeweasel (Oct 18, 2006 10:13 am) -Loren |
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Replying to: m1miata (Oct 18, 2006 12:38 pm) Here in lies the problem, I am not so sure it is dangerous at any speed, or any conditions. Sure there are times when it can be more dangerous than others, just like at times driving 55 MPH is more dangerous than others. But yet I don't see a wide sweeping ban on driving 55 MPH. Yet it is addressed in those areas where it is deemed unsafe. My point being is just because a segment of the population cannot seem to operate a car and use a cell phone at the same time does that mean that everyone has to suffer for their actions. Sure you see the driver who seems inattentive look into the car and see them on a cell phone. So have I, I have also seen them eating, drinking, reading and the like. I have also seen them apparently doing nothing distractive These people are usually just lousy drivers to begin with. Now the thing one has to think about is how often do you see someone driving down the street staying in their lane, going right away when the light turns green, changing lanes when its all clear and generally paying attention to their driving? Now how often do you look at what the driver is actually doing? My guess is not nearly as often as when you see someone driving like a total idiot. The point of this is that you will notice the lugnut talking on the phone, you won't necessarily notice the good driver on the phone. Simply because the lugnut draws attention to themselves by their actions while the good driver doesn't.
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Replying to: m1miata (Oct 18, 2006 12:38 pm)
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Replying to: snakeweasel (Oct 18, 2006 12:10 pm)
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Replying to: snakeweasel (Oct 18, 2006 12:17 pm) If people don't like these laws, they are more than free to try to change them. It will be harder than ousting the current burgeoning corporate theocracy that has invaded every corner of the power structure. Good luck.
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