Re: UK: Drivers may be banned from smoking at the wheel

[sam stover <sam.stover () gmail com>]

Brian Loe wrote:

> I could argue that I may not have the "right" to drink and drive but
> that wouldn't limit my argument that the government has no "power" to
> prevent me from doing so. The government's only real role is to exert
> its power in an effort to enforce contracts, whether those be
> contracts between states, itself and other governments, or between
> citizens. One such contract is the social contract I have with my
> fellow citizens requiring that I don't do them harm. Once I break that
> contract, the government's power can be brought to bear and a
> punishment be rendered.

While I agree in principle, it doesn't really work that way in real
life.  If a cop sees you throwing back a cold one in your car, he most
certainly can pull you over and (possibly) arrest you - or at least give
you a ticket (caveat:  I don't know, and am not arguing *what* he can do
to you, just that he *can* do it).

I'm not knocking your position - I agree with you more often than I
don't.  But the fact remains that, in some cases, you don't have to
cause anyone harm to get arrested - you just have to demonstrate the
capacity and you can be pre-emptively pwnd.


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S.f.Stover
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