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Driving is a privilege, not a right

(China Daily)
Updated: 2011-05-24 07:58

Comment on "New drunk driving law shouldn't be watered down" (China Daily website, May 19)

At this stage of China's development, one needs to be especially strict with people who break road and traffic rules, even if the strictness is aimed at establishing a "tradition" which will make driving vehicles a serious business.

As they say in some Western countries, "driving is a privilege and not a right". Everyone who drives must respect the conditions that come with that privilege. Driving in today's world is not meant to be a "status" symbol or a sign of "machismo".

Some judges' interpretation of rash driving reminds me of the psychoanalyst who described the actions of a music student who ran over and then stabbed to death a young mother in Xi'an, Shaanxi province, last year. The psychoanalyst kicked up a storm by saying that "the repeated stabbing was akin to a student continuously plunking the keys of a piano".

Hopefully, such "professionals" and medical practitioners would learn not to make "complete" fools of themselves, if they haven't already done so ...

Ganzhuolin, On China Daily website

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(China Daily 05/24/2011 page9)