“But sentiment is too arbitrary in its flow to be a reliable agent of public policy. Motorcycles kill more young people every year than Ecstasy tablets and racist thugs put together, and the sorrow of those bereaved in that manner is no less sharp or intense. But, quite rightly, that grief is not deemed to confer some expertise in traffic legislation or vehicle regulation. We would be rightly wary of parents who suggested that, in the light of their own tragedy, the liberties of all teenagers to risk their lives on motorcycles should be curtailed.”
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