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To: LindyBill who wrote (148901)	11/27/2005 9:35:34 AM
From: kumar	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793759

marriage is diff... driving - u are tested not just on driving ability/skills, but also knowing English - need to be able to interpret road signs. So yes, you learn, u pass/fail a test. its a privilege, not a right. If it were not done this way you would be a hazard to other drivers. Nobody (but u and the other person) cares who u matrry...

To: LindyBill who wrote (148901)	11/27/2005 12:34:02 PM
From: Alan Smithee	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 793759

Bullpucky, Kumar. That's the "state" making a good little slave out of you. Who is a better judge of my driving, me, or some bureaucrat at the state capital? It's just another government racket. I have to get a government license to get married. Does that make marriage a "privilege, not a right" given to me by benevolent bureaucrats? All state licensing is a combination of money raising and control of the individual by the state. I'm with Kumar on this. The state has an interest, and I'd say it's a compelling interest, in insuring that people who take charge of 2,000 or more pounds of steel have demonstrated a certain level of competence in maneuvering through traffic. Marriage is not an apt comparison. Think more in terms of professional licensing. You wouldn't, for example, want the surgeon who takes out your gall bladder to be the sole judge of his own capabilities as a surgeon. Nor do we want 85 year old Alzheimer's patients driving a Ford Excursion.