I agree. I wouldn’t focus on just the speed limit, but what is going on around you in traffic. Sometimes the slowest cars can cause the biggest hazzard. But I would definitly drive with not only your own safety in mind, but that of the other drivers.
Getting caught should not be the basis for moral decisions unless something is moral but one can still be penalized for it. However, driving a speed at which one would get a ticket is very likely to be immoral to begin with.
Hi, if someone is a billionaire and doesn’t mind paying a ticket, it’s still immoral to speed (excessively). Perhaps you mean that the consequences can remind us that something has moral considerations? I can see value in that. However, we must seek to live morally even when actions have no legal consequences.
True. Getting caught being fined is only one of the possible consequences. Other consequences were mentioned above, and certainly they, too, need to be taken into consideration. I didn’t feel the need to mention them, because they had already been mentioned.
Actually, no I do not. Living in a state that is billions in debt, I have just contributed to one of its largest sources of income so maybe the money will go to something useful. Oh, and traffic school was not a complete waste of time. I found out I can make a lane change legally in the middle of an intersection since they changed the rule on that and also a few other neat things like being able to make a left turn on a red light one way to one way. I would have been stuck waiting at the red light before I knew this rule but now I get to honk at people that don’t know the rule and go through the red light when this rare scenario of one way to one way occurrs.
Don’t honk! In most cases the left turn–or right turn–on red is optional, not obligatory! I’ve noticed in some cases when turning right on red that there is a potential conflict with other cars turning left on a green arrow from the perpendicular street.If he was a retired accident investigator or highway patrolman, I might give his opinion some weight. Why should a driving tester know more about it than you or I?
“Aggressively” obeying the law. Weird concept.
No they don’t. What part of the word “limit” don’t you understand/ The limit is the maximum speed under any circumstance, including if you’re overtaking, or trying to get away from someone, or going downhill, or in a hurry, or there’s no-one else in sight, or all the other lame excuses.
Your logic is haywire. As I said above, as Christians we are bound to obey ALL laws made by the State, regardless of whether we personally think a particular law is a good idea. We can’t pick and choose which laws to obey. The only exception would be if the State passed a law REQUIRING us to do something immoral (or forbidding us from doing something which we are morally BOUND to do.) Thank God, abortion is not “legal” in that sense, at least in most countries. The law (except in China) does not compel anyone to have or perform an abortion.
Because they are interested parties I suppose, and have gone to school with the highway patrolmen and accident investigators and knows them all well and has probably taught them to drive and tested them, and if their clients, who are also his friends children, are killed in an accident he makes it his business to ask why, as he tested their driving.
Yes, strange as it sounds, some people think its their business to enforce the law, - sort of like road rage in reverse, actually it is road rage when some one will deliberatly slow down forcing the drivers behind to brake and refusing to let another pass or to keep pace with the traffic. Its a form of aggression.
As an example, I was walking along a road which has a 60 mph limit, (but now has a 63 -ish mph limit because it was changed over to metric 100 kilometers per hour), anyway an artic truck travelling 50 to 55-ish came around a shallow bend and lo and behold a tiny ford fiesta was ahead of him doing about 25 mph. The truck had to brake very hard, skidded, the trailer wobbling from side to side - the truck stopped about 2 feet from the back of the fiesta. Slow driving can be dangerous.
It’s true that driving too slow for the prevailing traffic can cause accidents. Common sense is the key.
I’m sure from a pharisaical point of view it is.
1 [1](http://www.usccb.org/nab/bible/matthew/matthew23.htm#foot1) Then Jesus spoke to the crowds and to his disciples, 2 [2](http://www.usccb.org/nab/bible/matthew/matthew23.htm#foot2) saying, "The scribes and the Pharisees have taken their seat on the chair of Moses. 3 Therefore, do and observe all things whatsoever they tell you, but do not follow their example. For they preach but they do not practice. 4 They tie up heavy burdens [3](http://www.usccb.org/nab/bible/matthew/matthew23.htm#foot3) (hard to carry) and lay them on people's shoulders, but they will not lift a finger to move them. Matt 23