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aball1035
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I know a few, but they’re all under 16
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Tietjen
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Yeap and who doesn’t sin daily? I wouldn’t say that going 1 mile over the speed limit is a mortal sin (not grave matter), but certainly it can be considered a venial sin.
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alitaptap
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The answer is simple. Driving not beyond the speed limit is the simplest of your laws. If you learn to follow them, it could be the lowest form of the national discipline you can develop. Since it is totally no monetary cost, it should be easy for you to do. It should be therefore a good start.
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jmcrae
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I have inadvertently gone above the speed limit when driving long distances, and I have sometimes deliberately gone above the speed limit when I thought I was late for an appointment, but I don’t speed every single time I get behind the wheel.
I once saw a child run over by a car that was going five miles above the speed limit - it’s not a sight that you forget. So, normally, I travel a little under the speed limit, because you just never know when you’re going to need to stop in a hurry, and you would regret it for the rest of your life if you were speeding (or anyway, I know I would), and couldn’t stop in that situation.
The speed limit tells you how fast you can go on that road, and still be able to stop safely if something unexpected happens, and you need to stop very quickly.
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curlycool89
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Yes and no. When designing a curve on a road the speed limit is taken into account (how fast you can safely go around the curve), and at night the general rule is not to overdrive your headlights (which means don’t go so fast that if you suddenly stop you’d come to a stop beyond where your headlights reach).
On a sunny clear day on a relatively straight road though, the speed limit is usually more based on what type of road (so here in Canada a single lane highway is usually 100 kph, and a twinned highway is 110 kph. My own observation is that the great majority of drivers will drive 105-110 on a single lane highway, and 115-120 on a twinned one).
If you want to be technical, then we should pull back the speed limit to 70 kph because it takes less work for a car to go from 70 to nil than 100 to 70.
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jmcrae
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On a highway, there is less need for it to do so, since it is far less likely that there will be children playing on the highway. You will notice that in areas where there is in fact some likelihood of children playing on the highway (say, when you’re going by the Blackfoot Reserve) the speed limit on the highway is reduced considerably.
The speed limit on the highway takes into account the amount of time you need to be able to stop or get out of the way for the kind of hazards that you would encounter there, such as trucks coming into your lane when passing, and that sort of thing.
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Joseph629
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Well it’s a well known unwritten fact (here in Ontario), -and also told to me by a policeman-, that if the speed is 80KM/hr, no policeman would give anyone a ticket going between 80-89 K/hr. Absolutely everyone does it. Just yesterday, on a 3 hour trip, I passed 4 policeman with radars, while driving about 92-94, and not one stopped me. Yet, we are technically ‘BREAKING’ the law. BTW, that’s the same as doing about 56 MPH in a 50 MPH zone.
I have inadvertently gone above the speed limit when driving long distances, and I have sometimes deliberately gone above the speed limit when I thought I was late for an appointment, but I don’t speed every single time I get behind the wheel. .
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jmcrae
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We have a lot of speeders here in Alberta, too - I just don’t happen to be one of them. (Normally.)
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Joseph629
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Normally? I guess you’re ‘abnormally’ a sinner in this matter.We have a lot of speeders here in Alberta, too - I just don’t happen to be one of them. (Normally.)
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Stylites
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This was reaffirmed at Nuremburg, when the U.S. Government argued successfully that each individual is obligated to follow their own conscience above any merely human law. Hence it could be a sin to follow a law and a virtue to break it.
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mdgspencer
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There is an old Catholic dicta that it is not a sin if a starving man steals a loaf of bread.
If breaking the law is sinful, then Washington, Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin and all like men during the revolt against Britain were sinfully, wrongly, breaking English law. However, the Church teaches that such a revolt can be justified, in the right conditions.
Similarly, those Iranians revolting against their own government would be sinful, and in fact it was quite right for the government to hang several of them some weeks ago.
However, I agree that the law should generally be followed. But under the right circumstances, the matter is quite different.
Moral theologians give infractions against the law different seriousness. A minor traffic violation or, say, jaywalking where it is illegal would be of no seriousness. In fact some moral theologians have called such laws “penal laws,” saying that there is no guilt in breaking them, though if we are caught, we have to accept our punishment.
If breaking the law is sinful, then Washington, Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin and all like men during the revolt against Britain were sinfully, wrongly, breaking English law. However, the Church teaches that such a revolt can be justified, in the right conditions.
Similarly, those Iranians revolting against their own government would be sinful, and in fact it was quite right for the government to hang several of them some weeks ago.
However, I agree that the law should generally be followed. But under the right circumstances, the matter is quite different.
Moral theologians give infractions against the law different seriousness. A minor traffic violation or, say, jaywalking where it is illegal would be of no seriousness. In fact some moral theologians have called such laws “penal laws,” saying that there is no guilt in breaking them, though if we are caught, we have to accept our punishment.
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Petergray
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Great question. These are not sins because they do not disobey God. It is best to wear your seatbelt to keep safe, just like saying standing up on a bus is dangerous, so you should sit down all the time, unless there are no seats, as would be the case with this, wear your seat blet, unless its broken is what this case would be. If you never wore your seat belt, it would not change whether you went to heaven or not in my own opininon.
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Roman_Korvinus
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In the old days the true word of god was nothing more than vibrations. Music as it were. The tones of the solfeggio scale. Law was only bound by the various switches in the DNA which is activated or deactivated through those tones as science has now proven. Thus the reason behind the various monks and their chants. The only way to violate the law is to violate creation in such a way that life can not flourish.
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