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E. Faubion wrote:

>grimrod@mindless.moc (Brandon Sommerville) wrote:
>
>>Enlighten me, o wise one...
>
>Hint:  time machine

A safe following distance provides almost the same level of comfort.
As I said, any time I've made an error, my following distance has
allowed me to compensate.  Any time other drivers around me have made
errors, my following distance has allowed me to compensate.

>>Is he a pathologist or a G.P.?  Does he specialize in live patients or
>>dead ones?
>
>He's an M.D. who seeks the truth in his chosen field which is exactly
>what I pay him to do.  

And M.D.s can never be wrong?  M.D.s don't have great resistance to
change, despite proof to the contrary?  How many years have we had
M.D.s that prescribe antibiotics for every ailment under the sun?
What are we now discovering?  That the excessive prescription of
antibiotics dramatically reduces the effectiveness of them. The cure
all turns out to be self defeating.  Sound familiar?

>He deals with both the dead and the living just
>as I do.... and he does NOT rely on the biased opinions of amateurs.

If I want traffic safety, I deal with traffic engineers who look at
the whole picture, not someone who deals with tiny segments of it.
Why don't you see a pathologist to stay healthy?  A pathologist
specializes in finding out causes death, as an accident investigator
finds out what causes crashes.  Don't you see a correlation?  An M.D.
would be the equivalent of a traffic engineer.

>It's over Brandon. 

No one is more obtuse than the one who "knows".  All the "evidence"
you've given me has been "I'm right, you're wrong, be glad I took the
time to talk to you", or that one report that told us it meant
nothing.  That doesn't cut it.  Fine, I accept the fact that you
believe higher speeds entail more danger on the roads, but that
doesn't make it fact, nor does the factual numbers we've seen support
that premise.  

Laws and opinions based on emotional appeals are inherently flawed as
reason is by definition thrown out the window.  I fervently wish your
job was made obsolete, as I know you do, but I truly believe you are
going about it the wrong way.
-- 
Brandon

"Spooooooooooonnnnn!"