While I agree with your general thrust, Brian, I think, if I'm not mistaken, research has shown that it is variance which is to blame for more accidents and fatalities, not the speeding itself. While you may feel justified in not matching the speed of the traffic around you if that traffic is going faster than the speed limit, your doing so is more likely to result in an accident or even a death. I think in the grand scheme of things, that outweighs your concerns for the legality and possible ticket you might receive. That being said, the appropriate thing is for faster traffic to stay to the left, and slower traffic stay to the right. That way everybody is happy. If you are speeding in the slow lane, or going slow in the fast lane, then you are the problem.
This reminds me of the debate about when to merge into traffic from an entry ramp. The common intuition is to merge as early as possible, but I believe the conventional wisdom is that you should delay merging until you are required to do so. I don't know if this rests upon any research, or instead is just convention, but again, it appears to be a case where intuition seems to suggest that deviating from the norm is the best course, when in fact it may not be.
This reminds me of the debate about when to merge into traffic from an entry ramp. The common intuition is to merge as early as possible, but I believe the conventional wisdom is that you should delay merging until you are required to do so. I don't know if this rests upon any research, or instead is just convention, but again, it appears to be a case where intuition seems to suggest that deviating from the norm is the best course, when in fact it may not be.
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