The United States of America is one of the, if not the only, prized nation because of its individual rights and liberties. Is it therefore too restrictive for speed limits and regulations on the road, which may infringe on a person’s right to do as they please, as long as they ensure the safety of all others on the roads by their own judgmental and cognitive abilities? I would agree to that, for, as it is a logic amongst lawyers, Laws should technically only serve cases, wherein there is liability, as well as damages, which would have to be caused by the negligence of someone in their duties and responsibilities. While there would certainly be the case of the liability of an individual, if they would go over a prescribed speed limit, there is no case, whereat the person has caused any damages to another individual or has infringed on that person’s right to way or their pursuit of happiness in driving. So it thus confuses me as to why there are indeed Laws, which restrict its people to prescribed street limits and street lights. Is it to be preventive of car accidents or to submit the population into submission of unjustified Laws from the government?
It isn’t illogical to believe that the people should be educated enough to drive at their own speeds and conditions, as long as they keep in mind that other people are on the road as well and therefore enact as many safety precautions, as they can, but it should be by their own will and intelligence alone. Any intelligent driver would be able to regulate its own speeds by itself, and, if it is negligent in doing so, then it would be paying the repair bills or the hospital visits. It follows that everyone would want to avoid as many accidents, as they can, for it benefits no one to be at the center or cause of one. That doesn’t mean that speed limits or light stops should be utterly abolished, however. They could always serve as suggestions over how fast one should go, or when they should pause their driving, but the disregard of these implied duties to the community should be no means for fines and arrests, just as neglecting jury duty or voting duty shouldn’t have any Lawful consequences to them. The limit, to which I would allow the government their role in driving in the USA, would be the driver’s licenses, for it truly should be established, whether or not a person is able to enact rational, cognitive judgments on the roads, in order to avoid accidents and injuries.
When measures to suggest preventive methods of accidents have consequences to them, however, you know that something is very wrong and incorrect with the government at hand, and there wouldn’t be anything left to protect the government from imprisoning its people, before they even commit any actual damages at all, in order to “prevent” it. It is about time that we, the people, reestablish limits onto the government, to stipulate what they just can and cannot do, as our Founding Fathers have done all those years ago when fancying a government with checks and balances.