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Someone said driving is a privilege. It is not so. It is a right. And in many cases it is a requirement for work or otherwise.
Societies of the past chose to situate themselves sufficiently far from each other such that a means of rapid transportation is required in order to satisfy the demands of exchanging goods or services. From then one we have built our communities and cities, and countries to accommodate vehicular transport. We have built everything FOR cars, not the other way around.
We don't make new cars to "fit" new roads (with the exception of ecnonobox city cars, but they aren't really cars in my books), we build highways to accommodate faster travel and more volume.
It is not impossible to imagine a world in which cars did not form the basis for the layout of our communities, with something like trains or bikes in their place. Look at Hong Kong and all their bikes/motorcycles, for example.
So since driving is a requirement for most people, it is not logical, nor reasonable to argue that we need to drive gingerly at all times, utterly devoid of any spirit or amusement, when in fact we are the ones being forced to buy cars (on our coin, of course) to be able to work and contribute to our society by generating tax revenue and GDP.
If society wants me to work, to buy a car produced by society, to work for society, I think I reserve the right to use that vehicle how I see fit. And in the case of owning a luxury sports car, I deem fit use to mean speeding where appropriate.
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