General Road and Highway Discussion

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There are different punishments. Some punishments are more like tolls or taxes, they impact people very differently, e.g. fine prices impacting incomes differently. Others are harsher and more equally impacting, when the crime is deemed to have been too great, such as murder jailing the rich and poor person equally. Or, in our case, the safety consequences of someone speeding so recklessly, e.g. the stunt driving law. Impounding recognizes that you are too dangerous to be allowed to continue, just as an officer arresting someone pointing a gun at people is too dangerous to ignore. Both have a right to a trial, but the punishment is correctly protecting public safety when it has become too imperiled to allow to continue.