Re: Too Fast For Conditions (Was: Re: Aggressive Driving)

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From: Josh Turner
Date: Wed, 08 Jul 1998 00:00

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Richard Berkeley wrote:
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> Scott M. Kozel wrote:
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> > Brandon Sommerville <grimrod@mindless.moc> wrote:
> > >
> > > Scott M. Kozel wrote:
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> > > Stupid laws are stupid laws, bureaucracies as a group are generally
> > > incapable of reacting to new information.
> >
> > Laws are laws.  If you don't like them, then lobby the government to
> > change them.
> 
> What?  Large-scale noncompliance with the speed limit wasn't good enough?

No--it takes both. Politicos are going to listen a lot more carefully to
your lobbying when you can demonstrate that the laws that you are trying
to change aren't being meaningfully enforced anyway.

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From: Josh Turner <shua@umich.edu>
Subject: Re: Too Fast For Conditions (Was: Re: Aggressive Driving)
Date: 1998/07/08
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