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From: wetcw@pyuxa.UUCP (T C Wheeler)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Ethics and others in libertarianism - (nf)
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Date: Thu, 26-Jul-84 08:41:22 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jul 26 08:41:22 1984
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How many times does it have to be repeated that West Germany
has a HIGHER ratio of accidents than the US.  The ratio is
higher by 4 times the US rate.  The myth of safer driving in West
Germany is just that, a myth.  These statistics that everyone likes
to throw around about West Germany are nothing more than holdovers
from the 1950s when there was very few autos that could get up to
80 mph.  The drivers over there may well take a libertarian view
of their driving, but it doesn't last long as they are being
scrapped off a bridge abuttment.  If that's the attitude the
libertarians take, then I say they are wrong.  To say you have the 
'right' to kill yourself is infringing on my liberty in that
I have to pay my hard earned cash to send out the rescue squad,
repair crews, and police to pull your body out of the mangled
wreckage which just happened to take out 60 feet of guardrail
and a lampost before bending the hell out of two signs.  I
don't want to hear any specious arguments about how good a
driver a libertarian is, they are no different than anyone else
and can lose control of an automobile just as easily as the
rest of us.  Libertarian arguments about driving fast are
when they want to are stupid.  They seem to imply that libertarians
are better drivers than everyone else.  It just ain't so.
T. C. Wheeler