OFFENDING MOTORISTS [To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.]
Sta,—The inference of your note to Mr. Carpenter's letter is shocking. Surely it is far more reprehensible to infringe a law safeguarding human life than to break a law merely pro- tecting property.
I agree with Mr. Carpenter that the thief and the burglar are trivial offenders compared with those who by their example aid and abet manslaughter.—Yours faithfully,
13 Woburn Square, W.C.r. G. D. TURNER.
[No inference could legitimately be drawn from our note beyond the opinion expressed in it, which was that to drive two miles an hour above the legal limit, or to park a car where parking was not authorised, might be reprehensible but did not in itself involve moral obliquity. That offences con- stituting dangerous driving (which may as well happen at 22 miles an hour as at 32) involve a high degree of moral obliquity goes without saying.—En. The Spectator.].
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