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PuddingBoy posted...

You literally say you live in fear of getting pulled over by the police. Normal people who don't commit traffic violations don't live like that and that's just the truth.

Ah, the Puritan argument! "If you're not doing anything wrong, you should have nothing to hide."

Any interaction w/ a police officer that's pulled you over is going to be stressful. It's unlikely for the interaction to go sour and I definitely would be polite to the officer, but there's always a chance one could be the next Philando Castile, or at least getting roughed up. Kind of a crap shoot if you're unlucky enough to be pulled over by a bad cop vs. a good cop.

PuddingBoy posted...

When I'm speaking about this, I assume the majority of the people around you are all being safe drivers by following the speed limit or not disrupting the flow of traffic. I've never seen a single car in a pack of vehicles going 80 in a 65 zone get pulled over for speeding since that speed is what those in traffic have dictated to be okay. But if you're the one person blowing past everyone when they're all doing close to the normal limit, then you can get fucked for being a poor driver.

I said in my very first post I drive the speed of the rest of the traffic and it's usually like 15 mph or so over the speed limit on a highway.

Someone going way faster than the speed limit should get ticketed. I've argued the whole time the limits are too low, not for going fucking 100 mph in a 65 mph zone...