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Ok, I'll take your word for it.
For the record, I'm not ok with it. If people behaved sensibly we wouldn't need speed limits or police. You may have noticed this is not the case.
I think it's a waste of money we could avoid if people didn't act like idiots.
The things is, we do have police and if we don't have speed cameras, those cops are going to chase that revenue by pulling people over instead.
A cop pulling over a speeder is way more dangerous to the general public than a speed camera and it's also far more disruptive to the general flow of traffic. I fully expect this ultimately cost far more than the cameras. So, I'll take the cameras.
The easiest way to get rid of them is to stop speeding. Once the revenue they earn is negligible they will go away. This has the interesting side effect of you not getting speeding tickets.
I think you have a very fair and rational stance. I'm not necessarily against radar and traffic control either, but just like everything else, there's doing it and then there is overkill.