From: Rafal Smigrodzki (rms2g@virginia.edu)
Date: Wed Jul 31 2002 - 14:24:19 MDT
Lee Corbin wrote:
But speeding down the highway, especially if in a creative
mood perhaps slightly assisted by adult beverage, it
would be child's play for any extropian to concoct an
argument that he or she had a constitutional right to
drive down a public road at any velocity they pleased.
### Thank you for addressing this most urgent and disturbing matter - I
regard the current situation on American highways as a crass imposition on
our basic freedoms.
All adults should have the right to exercise the freedom to choose the
amount of risk they expose themselves to, rather than have the
judicial-constabulary complex enforce arbitrary rules in a totally whimsical
fashion, with the obvious goal of extorting money, and not protecting
anybody's life and limb. Indeed, clueless bureaucrats in Washington should
have no say about which speed is safe enough on the particular highway I
drive daily - instead, we the drivers should directly choose the appropriate
speed. Our paid servants and protectors, the police, must carefully measure
the speeds of free driving adults, calculate the average and the standard
deviation, and stop only those who are two-sigma off the mean (such persons
being mostly overconfident 17-year-old doofuses).
I exhort every person to whom the cause of freedom is dear - call your
senator now, and protest the injustice!
Onward, Extropes, speedier to the Singularity!
Floor it!
Rafal
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