Godstud wrote:Yes, there are some(very few) PEOPLE who are dangerous. This is not the norm, nor are there many.
Yes, there are only a few driving situations that can kill you when you bike in North American cities. Likewise, drivers-who-kill are not even close to being a majority in the world.
And yet, with only a fraction of motorists involved in killing people... a million people get slaughtered by car collisions each year around the world. Imagine if
the majority of car drivers killed. There would be a billion deaths each year. After seven years, there's only be one person left on the earth - a driver! And he would probably continue to kill other species until his own death - perhaps from isolation and carbon monoxide.
The notion that most drivers won't kill you... isn't very comforting, GS. If you walk through a bad part of Karachi, Pakistan wearing gold chains, MOST PEOPLE won't attack you with knives and steal your gold.
So why don't you try doing this to see how MOST CYCLISTS feel on the roads, and then think about the folly of using a few select statistics to
prove old wive's tales?
Our gods speak to us as if we were children, and we respond by never growing up
(ie. marketing destroys epistemology)