Another reason liberty minded folks lose
Some of our supposedly like-minded compatriots are nucking futs. Blowing through a stop sign is a victimless crime, I guess, as long as you’re lucky.
Via Tam.
9 Responses to “Another reason liberty minded folks lose”
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October 21st, 2010 at 11:09 am
Wow, thanks for posting. I wonder how much happened, and how much is fantasy. I speculate he got a ticket for running a stop sign and a warning for his plate, and wasn’t followed home.
October 21st, 2010 at 12:20 pm
The Libertarian in me says road side signs are bad except for the ones that pass along information. I’m not the brightest bulb in the pkg but I’m smarter than a sign. I can look both ways, see that there’s nobody coming and go my merry way without wasting time stopping for nothing. Same with stop lights – how many of you have sat though a light change with no traffic going cross ways to you? Idiotic! Same with speeding. If the sign says 55 and it’s wet and icy then it would not be in anybodies best interest to drive 55.
October 21st, 2010 at 1:41 pm
We have a lot of those pavement-embedded metal detectors around here. Once, I heard on the radio about a light that wasn’t changing, and had traffic backed up 1/4 mile. I had the opportunity to drive past. The guy in front was shy and hadn’t driven up to the detector. My mom is like that; I’ve told her about it. He finally moved up. The light could have been programmed to solve that, but that’s just us know-nothings arguing with the experts.
October 21st, 2010 at 2:44 pm
Crashing your car into another car should be the crime… Not ignoring a painted flat piece of metal… or speeding or any other of the “to protect you” laws.
October 21st, 2010 at 3:06 pm
Otter: But if no one has a stop sign, which car committed the crime, and which is the victim?
This theory can be applied to all sorts of things:
I can shoot my guns down the middle of downtown streets, as long as I don’t hit anyone, I am OK.
I can flash the local kindergarten playground, heck I can even masturbate in public. After all, there is no victim here, right?
Or could it be that we have rules to protect people from the stupid acts of others, and sometimes that means a slight inconvenience to those of you who feel that the world revolves around them?
October 21st, 2010 at 4:11 pm
If stop-signs were eliminated, everyone would still have to drive on round-abouts.
There is a natural law called right-of-way, I learned about it in Fencing. If someone holds their sword out first they have right-of-way, and I have to move their blade out of my way before I can moved forward or re-take the right-of-way – or else I impale myself on their blade. It’s a very literal right. Self impalation is not allowed.
October 21st, 2010 at 6:28 pm
the consensus is that roundabouts are better fixes to most intersections than stoplights.
October 25th, 2010 at 1:19 am
Divemedic is correct. I think the Libertarian movement is damaged immensely by this Anarchistic vein which has hijacked it. The “All Taxes are Theft” “Self-Governance” crowd think they should be able to do anything they want and nobody should be able to tell you that you can’t do something irresponsible, reckless, dangerous, immoral, or perverse in public places unless someone or something is physically damaged, which is absolutely stupid.
October 26th, 2010 at 12:09 am
Arguing about the ideology of traffic laws … looney.