Comments on: Texting + Driving = NO http://thefrontsteps.com/2008/10/21/texting-driving-no/ Real Estate, Insight, Statistics, Gossip, & News...With a Twist and Some Flavor Mon, 21 May 2012 00:11:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: hoegaarden http://thefrontsteps.com/2008/10/21/texting-driving-no/comment-page-1/#comment-6224 hoegaarden Wed, 22 Oct 2008 18:41:04 +0000 http://thefrontsteps.com/?p=2617#comment-6224 When you're piloting 2 tons of machinery capable of all sorts of mayhem and harm it makes sense to take a professional attitude to avoid collisions. That means focusing your attention to the task of driving. This is actually a case of liberty being curtailed in order to increase freedom. Specifically eliminating the liberty to text while driving improves the freedom from being maimed or killed by a distracted driver. Both liberty and freedom are American values and often conflicts arise. In this case lawmakers are valuing people's safety over their ability to multitask. I think that's the right priorities. But it's not surprising that some people take a "me first" view and don't value the safety of those outside of their car. When you’re piloting 2 tons of machinery capable of all sorts of mayhem and harm it makes sense to take a professional attitude to avoid collisions. That means focusing your attention to the task of driving.

This is actually a case of liberty being curtailed in order to increase freedom. Specifically eliminating the liberty to text while driving improves the freedom from being maimed or killed by a distracted driver.

Both liberty and freedom are American values and often conflicts arise. In this case lawmakers are valuing people’s safety over their ability to multitask. I think that’s the right priorities.

But it’s not surprising that some people take a “me first” view and don’t value the safety of those outside of their car.

]]> By: anon8mizer http://thefrontsteps.com/2008/10/21/texting-driving-no/comment-page-1/#comment-6219 anon8mizer Wed, 22 Oct 2008 10:23:36 +0000 http://thefrontsteps.com/?p=2617#comment-6219 The best video to highlight the brilliance of such laws. It's totally worth a gawk. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gaNahxluC5I The best video to highlight the brilliance of such laws. It’s totally worth a gawk.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gaNahxluC5I

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