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Driving and Cell Phones

AKIE BERMISS: Like any tools, weapons, or supplements — technological devices are both a convenience and a responsibility. Give a person a knife and you can be sure that they will be able to cut things. Whether those things are smart or helpful things to cut (food, ropes, clothes…) or stupid or useless things to cut (other people, themselves…) — is not something we will know beforehand. The same goes for cars — with speed comes the responsibility to know how fast, and when to go and when to stop, and which direction to go in. This is a simple but ultimately constant rule: with power comes responsibility.

And responsibility, for me, boils down to two simple things: will and intelligence.

HOWARD MEGDAL: While Akie calls for personal responsibility, as a good leftist, I will instead turn to the government for assistance here.