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Comment Re:Safety vs Law (Score 4, Insightful) 475

Increase the speed limits? Then there will be idiots driving even faster.

No, studies have shown that people drive at a speed that feels reasonable, regardless of limit.

Raising a speed limit often means just making legal what everyone is already doing.

There will always be crazy people going faster but they were already ignoring the speed limit entirely to begin with.

Many drivers already drive too fast for the road condition, traffic situation and the limitations of both their car and their driving abilities.

What studies show that?

Instead raising the speed limit in various states has lowered accident rates.

Comment Re:How to cripple a city (Score 1) 475

I thought about that also but if if each row had a second car behind them it would be easy enough to keep up the rolling blockade even if one or two cars got pulled over.

Also in some places the "can't drive slow in the left lane" applies only to roads with a speed limit of 65 or higher, which is higher than many in-city highway limits.

Comment How to cripple a city (Score 5, Funny) 475

If I were a terrorist group and wanted to cripple any city in America, I would get a group of 20 people together and simply go back and forth on all the major roads, driving the speed-limit abreast with one another in all lanes.

After a few days of that the city would do whatever you demanded.

That is, if you all survived the road rage.

Comment Re:Sigh (Score 1) 748

The rule is very simple. If the position is over something that the person has no control over, like race, skin colour, height, hair colour, gender, sexual orientation etc. then society at large will probably shun you for it. If it isn't illegal to discriminate on those grounds already it probably should be.

On the other hand any kind of choice is a valid target for criticism. Political views, religious views, that sort of thing.

Comment Re:Sigh (Score 1) 748

"I can understand your concern, this is why you shouldn't be concerned"

He needed to apologise. No less.

What he did harmed other people. Gay people who wanted to marry, who wanted equal rights and equal treatment under the law to straight people, where directly harmed by his actions. Having bigoted beliefs is one thing, but it's quite another when a person starts acting on them to the detriment of others.

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