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The system we have actually works, precisely because when something truly is out of whack, the system is able to adapt to correct it. It's not instant, but it happens all the time. I'm content with the system not because things are run as well as possible today, but because we have a system that can adapt to today's problems. People (a lot of them lawyers) are constantly thinking about what reform needs to be brought to the system.

Speed limits are unrealistic on what basis? If you mean they're unrealistic in that the police don't have enough manpower to ticket everyone who speeds, I'd have to agree, but setting speed limits based on police manpower doesn't strike me as a particularly good idea, for what should be obvious reasons. If they need to be applicable to every situation, does that mean we set the speed limit at whatever speed we'd allow a man to rush his dying wife to the hospital? If it has to be the same for everybody, do we have to ticket police when they speed to a crime scene or chase a speeding criminal? Higher speed limits won't make things more fair or equal, just faster. Everybody, obvious exceptions aside, runs the same risk of getting a ticket when they speed, and is subject to the same penalty within a given jurisdiction. Where this isn't the case, e.g., racial discrimination by police, we already have mechanisms in the system to deal with it. In other words, the essence of your idea is already built into the system. To the extent that we fail to uphold it now, why wouldn't we fail to uphold it under another system?