• Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    5 hours ago

    Look up the psychology of using “but” - in that sentence structure you were justifying the former with the latter, hence why felt the need to emphasized that those two things are separate and one does not justify the other.

    As for cyclists being or not reckless lawbreakers, my experience of almost 2 decades in 3 different countries and about 5 cities is that most are not. However there are a few cunts out there spreading a bad impression on the general population about the rest of us by being reckless, so I am totally in favor that those cunts get cracked-down on hard, even if they’re not as dangerous as equally reckless drivers because they’re not riding anywhere near the same weight of metal at anywhere near the same speed - simple Physics dictates that a reckless cyclist is much less likely to kill somebody than a reckless driver.

    Besides, cyclists who couldn’t care less about endangering others behave exactly the same behind the wheel of a car and at least in the West most cyclists are also drivers (and we’re all pedestrians too) so in general, that kind of person needs to be convinced to behave differently.

    This isn’t the fucking “thin blue line” and frankly any moron supporting those cunts just because “we’re all cyclists” needs to sit down and have a really hard think about what they’re actually achieving with it.