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To: dave rose who wrote (17383)	6/26/2001 10:50:52 AM
From: thames_sider	Read Replies (1) of 82486

Could we have more personal responsibility to govern these problems? Only when - or if - people show it... most laws are made to deter (or give a method of punishing) criminals, who have by definition shown less or no responsibility for the well-being of others. If a minority of people are irresponsible enough to need explicit legal warning against doing something stupid, thoughtless or dangerous before they will stop, then the choice is between protecting the majority - while restricting their freedom to be irresponsible (inconsiderate of others), even if they wouldn't use that 'freedom' - and accepting an avoidable risk. In a legalistic culture, the latter leads to lawsuits: perhaps rightly, if a driver's reckless disregard of others' safety causes him/her to have an accident or kill a pedestrian - but wouldn't this lead to a clamour for such a law, to 'prevent' other drivers killing while behaving in a theoretically legal fashion? Still, in a libertarian culture, the latter is surely the goal - relying on the civic sense of the individual to do the right thing. <g> and we know humans are trustworthy to do that.

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