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Old September 22nd, 2007, 06:43 PM posted to rec.travel.usa-canada
Doug McDonald
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Default Driver Licensing not about highway safety

Carole Allen wrote:

Driving is a PRIVILEGE, not a RIGHT....get used to it...and while
you're at it, learn the different between its and it's. Maybe spend
less time driving and more time reading.


No, its a RIGHT that has been taken away by the government.

No one ever said that riding a horse was a "privilege" not
a right ... saying so would have been thought ludicrous. Driving
a car is EXACTLY like riding a horse. Except for one big thing:
a horse by itself can actively kill people. A turned off
car can't (and please, no stupid counterexamples ... I am perfectly aware that
a car that is parked on a hill with no brakes and in neutral can
roll down and kill somebody, etc., but a horse by itself can actively
decide to stomp somebody.)

Indeed, originally driving WAS a right, only later was that
right taken away. Same with flying an airplane ... the Wright
Brothers didn't have pilots licenses.

The number one reason for the existence of government is to
take away rights.


Doug McDonald