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Originally Posted by golfing eagles
Well, it's sort of like the chicken and the egg. The driver behind wouldn't be impatient if some idiot wasn't gong 50 in the left lane to start with, and the person in an accident with the impatient driver wouldn't have been hit if there's was more "patience" exhibited.
So, now for the key question: Why should anyone have to be "patient" with some idiot driving 50 in the left lane? It's a matter of interpretation---yes, the proximate cause of an accident might be the impatient driver, but the root cause is the clown going slow.
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Don't confuse the catalyst with the cause. I doubt that "well, your honor, the reason I decided to pass in a dangerous no-passing zone and by so doing forced that oncoming driver to take the ditch and then roll down the hill, killing him and his entire family, was because THE IDIOT IN FRONT OF ME WAS DRIVING TOO SLOW" is going to be much of a defense. It was YOUR action that caused the accident. No one has the right to engage in illegal and possibly dangerous or even deadly behavior because he is angry.
That is not to say that driving too slow, especially in a lane designed for faster traffic, is not dangerous. It is. But it is dangerous only because of the volatility of human nature, especially in this day and age. We are far too quick to anger, and thus far more likely to do something rash, dangerous or illegal, than if we kept a cool head. Even slow drivers will eventually exit, or there will be a stretch of road where you can pass safely.