Dave Smith wrote:
proffsl wrote:

I also said that enforcement of traffic laws is a second means of
dealing with traffic safety. You may be surprised to see the number
of people with clean driving records. Then there are those with horrible
records. Licence suspensions allows the government to (try to) keep
those people off the road.

Here you seem to presume that the absence of a license, in and of
itself, somehow prevents someone from driving. Without the threat of
prosecution, there is nothing in the mere absense of a license that
prevents someone from driving. One doesn't have to have even acquired
a driver license for it to be later become suspended in order to keep
them off the highways, any more than one has to have a License to
Liberty issued and later suspended in order to keep them from
venturing to places they've been ordered by law not to go (restraining
orders). It's the threat of sure prosecution if they do those things
that keeps them from doing them.

It works for most people. Most people will go through the process of
learning to driving, getting a licence and showing some degree of
compliance with traffic laws. A small minority disregard those
requirements.

Irrelivant.

Do you agree that, ultimately, it is the threat of prosecution that
prevents people from exhibiting undesireable behavior?

Do you agree that people's Rights can be curtailed by Due Process of
Law without having to convert them into privileges requiring a
license?