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A claim that repealing the 55 mph speed limit killed more Americans than 9/11, Afghanistan & Iraq combined.

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I wonder what future thinkers will say of the [our age name here] compromise?

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There are some mistaken views here about who the victims are. The victims are not those involved with these but the rest of society who has to experience it, thus the concentration on surface behavior is no defect, but the real focus of the law.

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hypocrisy is a sign of advanced civilization. Actually I even have this idea that the more hypocritical the populace is, the more developed the society is. Fact is you can't run the society smoothly with mere universal stringent laws and judge people based on "moral standards". Pragmatism is the source for the creation of hypocrisy after people found out the world is a little bit more complicated than good and evil.

P.S. " If you took off the lid entirely, who knows how fast and how recklessly some drivers might drive on the roads."

You should try the autobahn in Germany, people drive much more responsibly with their manual gears than American auto-gear drivers.

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"If you took off the lid entirely, who knows how fast and how recklessly some drivers might drive on the roads."

Doesn't History know? It wasn't all that long ago that speed limits were significantly higher, if they even existed. Drivers in that time were more generally polite, in that they got out of your way if you were trying to go faster than they were.

Also, Montana has stretches of highway with no speed limit, as does Germany. Are drivers there especially reckless?

I would imagine, like the proposed sharp metal spike in the center of the steering wheel, the knowledge that the danger is heightened causes people to drive much more safely.

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