Re: Rights vs. Responsibility
Colin Brander <[email protected]>
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Wow, you have more power than Superman! On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 11:42 AM, Kingleo1 <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Andy Goodell wrote: > Exactly. I'm amazed how many articles in "news"papers say that > yclists FORCE drivers into oncoming traffic. How exactly a person > iding a bicycle in a predictable path that follows the laws forces a > ton car towards a potential head-on collision baffles me. > **** > Well Andy, it's the same thing as the media reporting something like: 'SUV > CRASHES INTO HOUSE'. > Those darned SUV's! You just can't turn your back on them. They'll run > away and crash ito houses every time. > The media has already been programmed, and then is trying to program You, > into subconsciously believing that it's never the driver's fault, it's the > SUV! > Again it all goes to the implication of a person being isolated and > annnomyous when inside the 3000 pound steel cage. > The bicyclist has no such protections, because the bike doesn't shield the > rider from the enviroment, but rather makes the rider PART of the > enviornment. > Their exhaust gasses are invisible and unnoticed, except to the cyclist > riding in traffic and sucking in lungfuls of it. I wonder how many would > still drive if, for example, if society shoved back into their homes, all > the pollution they created on each trip. A deligntful scenario I entertain > while riding in traffic, but that's just me. > On the one hand we dream of all getting along out there on the roads. But > I don't deny dream of and waiting for the super mega gas crunch they all > keep saying is coming, so we cyclists can stop worrying about tragically > forcing those helpless SUV's into crashes. Sigh. > > _______________________________________________ > Touring mailing list > [email protected] > Browse and search the archives: http://search.bikelist.org > Unsubscribe or list settings: > http://www.phred.org/mailman/options/touring > -- ================================== "All this free parking is charity for cars" - Donald Shoup - The High Cost of Free Parking ==================================