MOTORISTS AND MORAL OBLIQUITY
[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.]
StR,—We are a little disappointed to note the grudging manner in which you admit Mr. Carpenter's point in your footnote to his letter under the heading Motorists and Moral Obliquity.
As we understand it the fundamental principles of law are firstly the protection and preservation of human life and only secondly the protection of property.
Keeping the first of these principles in mind it should not be difficult to appreciate the necessity for regulations governing Road Traffic. Even the apparently trivial regulation has been designed with the direct object of increasing Public Safety.
(The revenue-producing licensing regulations provide the only exceptions.) It follows from this that a breach of any of these regulations involves "moral obliquity" in proportion to the seriousness of the offence.—We are, yours faithfully, "Horsley," Cosharn, Hants. RICHARD H. WESTBROOK.
R. F. ST. JOHN.
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