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February 6, 2007
This comes up
fairly frequently:
We often need to
draw a boundary that The speed limit is
we must treat as set at 35, but that
important, even doesn't mean that
though we really 40 is horribly dangerous,
know that it's or that 30 is safe.
precise location is
arbitrary. A convention exists
of allowing a certain
Humanity begins amount of slack on the
at birth. limit, meaning that
the actual limit is at
Adulthood begins some nebulous position
at 18. a little bit beyond the
legally specified one.
(or 21?
or is it 30?) So that's one dodge,
a way of getting
a gradient out of
a precise boundary.
What alternate
approaches might
there be?
Fines with
gradiated
amounts based
on speed.
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