From: Kathryn Kingsbury <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Anyway, I was also disappointed by the comment at the end of the Sprawl > Study article that said the rash of driving in the U.S. is understandable > because death rates for cyclists and ped are so much higher here than in > Europe. Seems to me that the best way to avoid vehicular homicide is not to > drive. If you ain't driving, you can't be killing anyone with your car.
But Kathryn, that's not the American way? Why bother with the root cause of a problem when you can throw something at the symtoms and/or blame the victim? Why bother adjusting your diet and exercising when you can take a pill for your cholesterol (and another for your heartburn and another for your blood pressure and another for all the side effects of the others and...)? Concerned about the safety of kids biking to school? Why look into the cause (too many parents driving their kids to school)? Just ban it! Even our friends in the auto industry understand this; they've succeeded in scaring the government into lowering fuel economy standards, claiming that they'd be required to make smaller cars, that (GASP!) wouldn't be as safe with so many big vehicles on the road (homework assignment: spot the irony). Einstein had a qoute about this. I don't have it exactly, but it's something like "We cannot solve any problem using the same thinking that went into creating it." Gotta wonder what was in his Hoover FBI file...--------------------- Paul T. O'Leary Desktop Insurgent Madison WI USA _______________________________________________ Bikies mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.danenet.org/mailman/listinfo/bikies
