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John David Galt
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>> Actually, the problems we were discussing are very similar. Nothing like
>> you're describing at all.
> Then perhaps you can explain _how_. The explanation above seems to be
> precisely a statement of analogy: "A is to B as C is to D". Or, more
> directly: "underposted advisory limits are related to people ignoring
> advisory limits in the same way as underposted legal limits are to
> people ignoring legal limits".
>
> This may be true, but even if so, does nothing to connect _advisory_
> limits to violation of legal limits.
The connection is this: both the advisory speeds and the legal limits are
posted by the same highway department, and now that that department has
thoroughly earned a reputation for "crying wolf" on most of its signs,
all of its signs tend to be disregarded -- including the small percentage
that drivers really need to heed.
>> you're describing at all.
> Then perhaps you can explain _how_. The explanation above seems to be
> precisely a statement of analogy: "A is to B as C is to D". Or, more
> directly: "underposted advisory limits are related to people ignoring
> advisory limits in the same way as underposted legal limits are to
> people ignoring legal limits".
>
> This may be true, but even if so, does nothing to connect _advisory_
> limits to violation of legal limits.
The connection is this: both the advisory speeds and the legal limits are
posted by the same highway department, and now that that department has
thoroughly earned a reputation for "crying wolf" on most of its signs,
all of its signs tend to be disregarded -- including the small percentage
that drivers really need to heed.