on the other hand, you have a law like this one mentioned that could be justified from the view of a libertarian principle of “not illegal unless it harms other people in the community” (my paraphrase). but ultimately i consider driving a vehicle as a vital practice to society, which it obviously is if you want to do almost anything, and it comes with an acceptable shared risk to maximize liberty. passing laws like this pushes the concept of pre-emptive guilt in my opinion.

but the entire thought of laws passed for pre-emptive purposes and supposed guilt are the way things are done today. it’s a trend that looks like it’s only going to gain momentum as our society slowly and surely moves toward totalitarianism in the Age of Scarcity/Austerity.

Would such a law be “worth it”?

The most dangerous thing you will ever do is be in a moving car. My step-daughter’s father was killed by an idiot who didn’t care about driving safety.

As Radley Balko says, “If this were causing people to drive recklessly, you’d think it would be covered by laws against . . . reckless driving.”

It is, of course, but that’s a heck of a lot harder to enforce. Police work is supposed to be easy, donchaknow.