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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hellefire" data-source="post: 2029672" data-attributes="member: 28129">The speed to fatality connection is due to the speed at which the mind interprets and reacts to a 'danger.' At 65-70mph, in the average person, the brain registers enough of a danger to keep pumping low levels of chemicals into the bloodstream which keeps the brain sharper and the muscles tighter. Of course you get tired from burning those body resources. At 50-55 miles per hour, the average brain does not register a danger, therefore you will pay less attention and get tired more from being bored than from burning body resources, and your mind will have much more of a tendency to wander.This is entirely off the subject, but I would argue that what is 'reasonable' is closely related to 'common sense', in that it is decided by the people and society at the time. Whatever 50%+1 of the people decide is 'reasonable', is, therefore you can count on at least half of the people to be reasonable by definition. This last part might ruffle feathers and be leaning toward the political, so I will keep it short. In my mind, anyway, there are two sides of the law. The letter of the law and the spirit of the law. The spirit being, or what it should be in my world being, to protect people from other people. I think victimless crimes should not be crimes, and I think you are responsible for protecting yourself from yourself and it's your own business, but that's another rant. Anyway, with the letter of the law, I see a lot that I think of as idiocy. Technicalities that I find as absurd as some of the ways obvious criminals walk away because of court technicalities. That's a whole new can or worms and I guess I already said more than I planned to. Just, basically, don't hurt other people. Don't put yourself in a place where you have a likelihood of hurting other people. And 99% of the rest is ok with me. Aaron BlairForen Star</blockquote>

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