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Old October 2nd 09, 05:46 AM posted to rec.bicycles.soc,rec.bicycles.misc,uk.rec.cycling
Jym Dyer
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Default How do you feel about entitled drivers?

Nate Nagel a.k.a. N8N writes:
Nobody's entitled, and nobody has any special privileges just
because of their chosen mode of transportation.


=v= If only. In fact, a bloated sense of entitlement is very
much a part of the problem of motorist behavior:

o Car-based transportation would be impossible without the
staggering array of subsidy that props it up, yet motorists
constantly whine about the costs anyway.

o Even some of the densest cities devote 50%-75% of their
land area to cars, but motorists whine about how hard it
is to find (heavily-subsidized) parking, and feel they
have a "right" to store their vehicles wherever they can
fit them.

o Motorists typically and constantly exceed the speed limit
as much as possible and as often as possible, with the
complicity of law enforcement. Amongst white people, it's
usually the most egregious offenders who are stopped for
speeding, and they whine and whine about that, too.

o Don't even dare to mention the environmental or health
impact that motorists impose on the rest of us, unless
you want to get an earful of denialism, sob stories, or
useless remarks about Al Gore's girth.

=v= Have drivers pay the actual costs of their chosen mode of
transportation out of pocket, and then we can talk about nobody
having special privileges or entitlement.
_Jym_

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Old October 3rd 09, 01:12 AM posted to rec.bicycles.soc,rec.bicycles.misc,uk.rec.cycling
John Thompson
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Default How do you feel about entitled drivers?

On 2009-10-02, Jym Dyer wrote:

If only. In fact, a bloated sense of entitlement is very
much a part of the problem of motorist behavior:


This reminds me of a recent editorial by Hervé Kempf titled "Magical
Thinking:" http://www.truthout.org/092309F


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-John )
 




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