Increasing numbers of states are passing tough laws against text-messaging while driving, keeping them from passing laws against other similarly responsible driving activities, like juggling, meditating, having group sex and playing tennis. For the ethically and mentally challenged, however, even the obvious danger of text-messaging behind the wheel of a car to the text-er and others isn't sufficient to make them stop. A certifiably self-absorbed and stupid such individual, a 21-year old woman-child named Taylor Lemming, even started her own Facebook Group, which is cutely named, "I Text Message People While Driving And I Haven't Crashed Yet!" This got her a photo and an interview in Time Magazine, which, like most of the media, will rush to reward the reckless and irresponsible with fame.

Her interview showed that Leming is exactly the kind of person you might expect to start such an on-line community:

TIME: Why did you start this group?

Leming: My friends and I were laughing about how we sometimes text and drive, and how we know it's dangerous and have nearly rear-ended people because of it. I made the group mainly as a joke among us and a few of our friends. And gradually people invited their friends, and so on.

TIME: Do you think texting while driving is a problem?

Leming: Yes. Unfortunately, people still do it. I still do it. Sometimes it just seems easier to text "Be there in 5" instead of calling.

TIME: Ever had an accident?

Leming: Thankfully, I have had only near accidents. A few times, I was texting in stop-and-go traffic and had to slam my brakes to avoid rear-ending the person in front of me ...

We look forward to Leming's future Facebook Groups, such as "I Have HIV and Don't Tell My Sex Partners But Nobody Suspects Yet," "I Smoke in Bed in My Parents' House But So Far When I've Dozed Off the Cigarette Went Out," and "I'm Dating a Serial Killer But I'm Sure He'd Never Hurt Me." Meanwhile, the Scoreboard will cherish her jaw-dropping answer to Time's final question, a monument to ethical cretinism on an epic scale:

TIME: Would you support a text-and-drive ban?

Leming: It would be a hard rule to enforce, as a cop cannot necessarily see someone texting while driving. I would support it, however, because I consider myself to be a pretty good law follower and would feel pretty horrible if something happened because of me breaking a law.

I see. So as long as there isn't a law against doing something you acknowledge is dangerous and could result in an innocent party's injury or death, you won't feel bad about, right, Taylor?

What an idiot.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, in his 1897 essay, "The Path of the Law,' described a hypothetical "Bad Man," someone who only obeyed the law to avoid punishment, but who was incapable of caring about whom he hurt or what harm he did as long as no lawbreaking was involved. The Bad Man is the embodiment of the person who does not care about right or wrong, and the Bad Man lives in the somewhat altered form of "The Bad Text-Messenger," or perhaps "The Moronic Unapologetic 21-year Old Woman Who Is a Menace to Society and an Embarrassment To Her Parents, Generation, Nation, and Species."

That's Taylor Leming, who is even worse than her unethical website. At least the website doesn't drive a car.