(July 13, 2013 at 6:07 pm)thesummerqueen Wrote: Government doesn't exist to monitor good people who usually organize and fall in line. It's to punish the motherfuckers who refuse to do so - of which you need only one to cause massive trauma on the road. Speed limits aren't for sensible drivers - they're for the idiot in the sports car who thinks he's on a NASCAR track.
The role of the government goes beyond that - it is required to define the lines good people should fall into. Even if the roads only had sensible drivers, it wouldn't mean that they agree on everything. A sensible Nascar driver may say that given his superior driving skills, he shouldn't have to follow the same speed limit as an average driver, while other sensible drivers may see the risk due self-overestimation and argue for a single limit for all drivers. Without a government to define and enforce those limits, even sensible drivers would be lost as to what speed they shouldn't go over.
