Right ≠ permission
Equal access also doesn’t mean that abuse and unnecessary risk will be tolerated.
Driving is not a right. WAY too many people are allowed to drive. What’s worse is that WAY too many people have no option BUT to drive
What’s worse is that WAY too many people have no option BUT to drive
That’s exactly why it’s treated as a right. Can’t drive?Can’t live.
I wanted to make a joke about how the American brain simply lacks the part that enables manual locomotion, but our cities straight up do not allow for it. If I cycled to work, it would take me an hour to get there and an hour to get home. I’d love to live within cycling distance of work, but I don’t make enough money to rent in that area, let alone buy
Our cities are deeply unwell, and I don’t think it’s possible to fix them
Wow what a bummer that trains, buses, bikes, electric scooters, and every other mode of rapid, inexpensive transportation has been un-invented. Those would have been really useful literally every moment since they were first invented. If we had those we could treat driving like it was the most dangerous thing people do every day, which it is.
My point is that driving is essential only because the people in power have unilaterally decided that it must be, and fuck them for that.
No, I get it, the problem the way we’ve chosen to build society, but now that it is the way it is, judges and juries are reluctant to ban someone from working and buying groceries for anything less than a prison sentence…
Like it’s pretty crazy to me that the State (USA) can seize you car if you transport drugs with it, but not if yoU literally run over a human being. People with multiple violations and triple-suspended licenses still get to keep their cars.
Yeah you make a good point. I hate all of it
I don’t want to drive, give me walkable cities and public transportation
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Everyone should have equal rights
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To ride the bus
Boom. Solved.
As a bus driver, hard disagree! There’s people who will wait at a bus stop, wait in line to board the bus, and only then will they spend 5 minutes digging through their pockets or bags for fare.
Or ask where the bus is going, expecting me to tediously list out all the places this bus goes, and when asked the very reasonable question"where are you trying to get to?" Become cagey and refuse to answer. Then ask the same vague and open ended questions.
These people should report to the nearest artillery practice range asap
Never understood why bus stops didn’t have little kiosks to buy a ticket there, like train stations do.
Too expensive. Most bus stations are basically just a sign, sometimes you also get an ad poster and a shelter. Bringing kiosks would imply setting up electricity and internet. When you could instead just make a phone app.
Usually when someone asks “where the bus goes?” they mean the last stop of the bus, but maybe it’s just in my place idk
I like the ones we have around here waiting at the bus stops on our main boulevard which is a perfectly straight road you can see up and down for about a mile and a half in either direction, but who will stand out in the travel lanes and craaaane their necks in this ridiculous pose apparently hoping this will allow them to see the bus coming sooner.
I’ve seen people lose that right. Hell, I almost did.
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I was at my first gun show with an older friend who knew guns better than I did who I was following around to keep me from making any stupid decisions.
There’s a table with a sign for “Constitutional Carry,” where they don’t think you should need a special license to concealed carry a handgun.
My friend walks up to these two guys at the table, and says “Hey, just so you know, I hope you guys fail.”
The younger of the two kind of bristles, but the older one, a dude with a long white beard, says “Oh, why?”
My friend says “Because I worked in a gun shop for fifteen years, and I helped fill out more concealed carry applications than I can count and…” at this point she gestures around at the huge room behind us, “I wouldn’t trust 95% of the people in this room with any gun at all.”
And the old dude behind the table smiles and nods his head and says “Yeah, that’s a fair point.”
So anyway, that’s the day I bought a Ruger GP-100 in 357 Magnum.
So anyway, that’s the day I bought a Ruger GP-100 in 357 Magnum.
Driving is a privilege, not a right. Easy fix.
I always told driving is a privilege, not a right.
Everyone has the right to drive, provided they can show the required level of skill and competence to do so.
Unfortunately, unskilled and incompetent describes far too many drivers.
Shouldn’t be forced to drive, the US is deliberately designed to be hostile towards pedestrians in ways that the vast majority of people are unable to do anything about. A good percentage of those people also know damn well they’re bad drivers and would choose anything else if they could
Driving is a privilege, not a right. Or so im told.
Freedom is a right, but you can still get put in jail.
✨fuck cars✨
Equal rights means you are given equal access to the tools that will allow you to learn to drive. If you’re too stupid to drive that’s an entirely different matter.
Meanwhile, “Here, have a gun!”
You have the right to exercise your driving skills, if you have them
Driving isn’t a right.
Or vote or have kids sigh
Voting is pretty harmless. That one isn’t hooked up to anything important without s lot of failsafes.
