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Originally Posted by niky
Driving on roads built and maintained by the state is a privelege, not a right. You have the absolute right to drive your own car on your own land without a license or a seatbelt, with no one to blame but yourself if things go tits up.
On roads that don't belong entirely to you, considering your taxes have paid for less than a millionth of their length, hell no.
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You are right the roads do not belong entirely to me, I never made that claim. The neat thing about this country is that we delegate tasks to our agents, the public official. We could have built a bunch of private roads all over the country but officials acting under powers we the people delegated to them built a road system.
Funny you should mention seat belts. I wear them, it would be foolish not to. If some other driver did not want to what right do you and I (through the powers we delegate to the police) have to tell them they must do it or we will take their time (for stopping as it is a primary offense in many jurisdictions) and their money.
What harm does it to anyone if someone operates a motor vehicle on public roads without being licensed?
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