I was driving to work today and drove past the Photo Radar cameras on the 101 freeway in Scottsdale. I drive by all of them everyday to and from work. I think they are a good idea. If you break the law, you get flashed and you get a ticket. They even have "grace" built right in (you can go 10 miles over the limit and not get flashed).
That's when it occured to me; the cameras only flash you if you are going too far OVER the speed limit, even though it is also illegal to go too far UNDER the posted limit. I understand that we do that to protect lives. However, the thing that bugs me, and that I hear most people complain about, is not how FAST people are going, but how SLOW some people go.
I would like to propose that the people that drive by the cameras at less than 10 miles an hour UNDER the speed limit are also flashed. And, if they are going that slow in the far left lane (The Fast Lane) then their ticket could be even more expensive.
It reminds me that we naturally accuse people of being "wrong", or even "weird", using ourselves as the basis for "right". For example, regardless of whether we are going too fast or slow in relation to the speed limit, we call anyone going faster than us a "maniac" and anyone going slower than us an "idiot".
That's why having an external measure for right and wrong is crucial. Without an absolute that we can all subscribe to there will always be some measure of chaos.
It's even better, if that "external measure" is perfect. What if we were so lucky as to have that external measureER, care about us... ALL of us, even the ones who don't care about him. What if he desired nothing more than to just be close to us and were willing to sacrifice himself to make that possible. That would be great (Romans 5:8).
C
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