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Originally Posted by andyl
It is quite obviously not a good way of exemplifying the point you are trying to make. This really isn't hard to grapple with. If you are travelling at greater speed you have less time to respond and will cause greater damage if you collide with something or some one. That is undeniably logical. Your argument that you can kill anyone at nearly any speed is frankly stupid. Presumably you also think water is a dangerous toxin because if you drink enough of it, it will kill you.
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OK, my point is obviously a little unclear to you. Let me put it in simple terms:
The higher the speed, the more likely that death or injury will occur (your point).
Death and injury can occur at the current speed limits too (my first point).
If speed limits were LOWERED then death or injury would be LESS likely to occur (continuing my first point).
You argument would suggest that the government, or whoever sets speed limits, cannot care enough about reducing death or injury on the road, if they allow speed limits to remain as they are, instead of reducing them to a much lower level (I am hoping for a response to this point, but not getting one).
Put quite succinctly, the argument that speed limits etc are there to save lives is not accepted on my part. If that were the case, then it isn't working well enough. The reduction of speed limits would suggest that saving lives is higher on the agenda.
Let me just say however, that I certainly do not want speed limits reduced, but I think a complete review of speed limits should take place. Some should be lowered, some should be raised.