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- From: donn@brat.wa.com (Donn Pedro)
- Newsgroups: seattle.general
- Subject: Re: Why CAN'T people drive 55?!
- Message-ID: <1410@brat.wa.com>
- Date: 23 Jan 93 18:09:12 GMT
- References: <1993Jan14.204345.8663@ctsx.celtech.com>
- Distribution: seattle
- Organization: Tandemonium, Kent, WA
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- In article <1993Jan14.204345.8663@ctsx.celtech.com> alan@ctsx.celtech.com (Alan Dahl) writes:
- >On the 55mph speed limit, there seem to be two types of people: those
- >who believe that any law, no matter how unjust, should be followed to
- >the letter and those that believe that an unjust law should be ignored.
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- Missed me again. :-)
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- I am in neither catagory. I drive the limit (as much as is possible
- because I make mistakes too -- I can be inattentive too sometimes when
- conditions on the road are more important than a three mile an hour
- difference in my speedo), because it just isn't worth it to speed.
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- The deck is stacked against you by the police, insurance companies,
- and the courts.
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- >All IMHO, of course.
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- No malice intended but this seems to fit.
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- "Everyone is entitled to an informed opinion."
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- Harlan Ellison
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- Donn Pedro ....................a.k.a. donn@brat.wa.com
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- "You talk the talk. Do you walk the walk?"
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- There are no ordinary moments.
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