Re: UK: Drivers may be banned from smoking at the wheel

[Nick FitzGerald <nick () virus-l demon co uk>]

The "modern caveman", Brian Loe wrote:

> I'm so very sorry that you have such trouble with the English
> language, but here again is what I said, as you quoted it:
> > > Your rights end at the tip of my nose.
>
> Now what rights am I willing to give up again? After all, any that
> would do you harm are not rights to begin with, as I stated clearly in
> this oft quoted sentence.
>
> Here's an example I might give one of my children (who didn't take
> nearly this long to pick up the concept, btw): I have the right to
> travel. I do not, however, have the right to travel through someone
> else's property - possibly causing them financial damage.
>
> I have the right to do what ever the hell I like in my car while
> driving UNTIL I do you damage. Once I have damaged you, you and the
> society I live in have the power to make me pay for it in any
> reasonable and humane way.

Yet you defend -- nay, are aggressively in the favour of -- what you 
claim is your right to use possibly fatal force to defend yourself if 
you perceive your life, or that of various others more or less closely 
associated with you (be that familial or possibly even just 
geographical) is "endangered".

Thus, your position of your right to "drink and drive" is an excellent 
development.

By applying other of your caveman ethics, that means the rest of us 
have the right to shoot you, possibly fatally, while you are drink-
driving, as we perceive such actions on your part as an imminent threat 
to our lives or the lives of those around us.

Anyone want to go stake out Brian's street for his next drink-driving 
episode?  The ethicist in him will thank you for killing him...


Regards,

Nick FitzGerald

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