Honestly this is absurd. These death machines shouldn’t be legal in europe. That thing doesn’t even fit in the parking space, even though the parking lot has the biggest spaces in the whole city. The Golf Polo is so small in comparison, it could even hide in front of the engine hood of the truck.

EDIT: It’s a Polo and not a Golf, I don’t know my cars, sorry for that!

  • schzztl@lemmy.nzEnglish
    1·
    2 years ago

    Fundamentally what irks me is that using an oversized car out of safety concerns becomes a zero-sum game. Yes in a crash you’re more likely to be better off. The person you’re crashing into - less so. It’s rational behaviour to prioritize the safety of yourself and I understand why people do it. However myself as an external observer has no reason to symphasize with the person doing that over all other users of the road. I don’t think I’m a bad person for being uncomfortable with that.

    Perhaps “you’re part of the problem” was poor wording, and better wording would have been “go ahead, but I don’t like it”. Either way - this is a comment I made at like 2am on the fly and I find no value in writing more paragraphs arguing about the implications of it.

    • thereisalamp@reddthat.comEnglish
      11·
      2 years ago

      Then stop.

      You made your position public. That public posting opens you up to criticism. No one obligates you to write paragraphs defending it.

      Your rewrite was better. As was this argument. But you’re not going to convince anyone that they should subject themselves and their families to being less safe in order to be safer to others. Covid deniers proved you can’t even convince people to be safer for themselves, and get the bonus of helping others. In fact you had politicians out there saying grandpa is happy to die for capitalism.

      I still think your lashout was childish and I had the time and inclination to call that out. But let’s be clear I never even implied you were a bad person for your position.