A lot of people think speed limits are a good idea, and there's two ways of going about it. You can have the limits set by states, towns, and localities. They will tend to be in similar ranges, but they will vary quite a bit. One town might have one limit. Another town might have a different one. Some states might not even have any speed limit at all on open highways. Some are different in the daytime than at night. As long as they're all clearly marked, it works pretty well, and legal caveats are often added to allow police the right to take local weather and other conditions into account.
Or you can have some Federal idiot set a universal speed limit for the whole country.
Laws on property and theft aren't in the same category, and if you knew anything about the philosophy of government, you'd know that.
Humans are indeed not ants, and the sooner we realize that we can't govern them that way, the better.
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Good example.
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- First they came for my lightbulbs...
- Isn't this at the same level of wiretapping?
- At gunpoint, remember. Came for the bulbs at gunpoint.
- No burn days
- This is why I burn tires at night!
- Dickensian London and the Clean Air Act
- Another Strike at Freedom
- FIRST, they came for your habeas corpus, then your phone calls - - -
- Dayam! That's one smoking ban I'd fight tooth and nail!