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Originally Posted by BadSS
I get tired of the government controlling nearly every aspect of our daily lives just like everyone else but your logic is skewed.
You are correct that he was an adult, perfectly capable of making his own decision, as well as his passenger but what about the family of, say four, that was on the other side of that crest and they are all dead now. So now you have others that made the decision to obey the law but are gone because the idiot doing 140 on a public road "was perfectly capable of making his own decision" to kill himself and innocent people. What if that family happened to be yours that he killed???? You would be the first to file a lawsuit for millions on the basis that he was traveling too fast. Think about it!!!
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My logic is skewed because you made stuff up and started talking about a whole other topic?
Your logic is "skewed" (do you even know what that means?) because you assume we could ever stop it. Taking the suggestion given, if every car was limited to 70mph, and he was doing 70 over a hill and the other car was doing 40, that's a closing speed of 110mph...guess what, everyone is still dead.
So maybe we limit it to 50, now we can't even do INTERSTATE speeds.
Or maybe we can just accept the fact that you can't stop terrible things from happening and the only way to even try is to cut back on how much living we can do.
Drive very slowly, be cavity searched before getting on a plane, don't own guns, only use butter knives and maybe even plastic at that.
You get to a point where the faulty logic of "it could have been prevented" leads you to ignore the costs of the actions you take to try to stop people from being killed.
People will always kill other people. People will always kill themselves. sometimes on purpose, sometimes by accident.
The sooner you accept that, the sooner you can stop being caught up in trying to keep everyone alive and start living a life.
I find it very ironic btw that a society filled with people who seldom if ever really live, is so hung up on extending that mundane existence as long as possible.
I'd rather die in a fireball in the middle of a field at 45 than sitting in a chair watching american idle at 70.
Simple fact of the matter is, even if your life isn't "cut short", it's still VERY short. Spend it living life and cherishing the people you have and not filing the sharp edges off everything you see.
Oh and try to practice a little common sense and intelligence...see how much that ups your life expectancy.
