02-08-2007, 11:53 AM
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#496 (permalink)
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bearclaw@cruller.invalid wrote:
> When I am driving, I don't have time nor
> appropriate facilities to evaluate the reasons for the risk they
> present, nor is it germane. There are far too many drivers repeatedly
> and consistently "making a mistake". Those drivers rely on my assumption
> that they are (pick one or more: stupid, psycho, emotionally unfit,
> inexperienced, inebriated, etc., etc., etc.) to avoid the collisions
> which their (pick one or more: neglect, distraction, aggression, etc.,
> etc., etc.) would otherwise cause.
I'm constantly amazed at how much reliance total strangers place on MY
brakes.
> Practically every police agency in the nation has data indicating that
> almost *all* vehicular "accidents" (GOD, I HATE that term) are
> AVOIDABLE.
> That means that when "accidents" happen, they happen because drivers
> don't want to avoid them. Ergo, most "accidents" happen because the
> driver at fault wishes, at some level, for them to happen.
More likely too stupid or careless to try to prevent them from
happening. Do not attribute to malevolence etc...
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Cheers, Bev
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