04-17-2005, 06:41 PM
SetBuilder,Apr 17 2005, 01:18 PM Wrote:If I go out and purchase a bike, and proceed to maintain the bike (like, the pedal kind), and do everything necessary to learn everything to keep myself alive during it's usage, as well as any necessary safety laws, I have taken all steps necessary to have the RIGHT to ride that back. It's MINE. Who are you to tell me not to ride it?
I own my car. I maintain my car (at great cost, sometimes). Not you, not anyone else. I know the safety laws, and I pay for insurance. Why are you telling me I don't have the right to use my own property as I see fit?
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Ignoring most of your rant to address the issue of 'driving as a privelege':
Do you own the roads you drive on? Do you pay for their upkeep directly?
AFAIK, you can drive on your own property with no licence at all. You only need a licence to drive on publicly owned roads, created and kept up by your government, funded by public/taxpayer monies. If that government sets rules for the use of those roads, to ensure public safety, there is no contradiction at all.
Further, you do not have the 'right to use your own property as you see fit' in quite a lot of areas - all of which come under the 'unreasonable effect on others' criteria. You do not have the right to dump chemicals on your land. You may or may not have the right to build a factory on your land. The list goes on.
And you may call it righteousness
When civility survives,
But I've had dinner with the Devil and
I know nice from right.
From Dinner with the Devil, by Big Rude Jake
When civility survives,
But I've had dinner with the Devil and
I know nice from right.
From Dinner with the Devil, by Big Rude Jake