To me, I take all statistics with a grain of salt .  Every bit of 
tests/data is based upon a certain set of subjective parameters , which in 
turn fullfill themselves objectively.  All Subjective truth fulfills itself 
objectively. 

 
Reminds me of the quote by Aaron Levenstein:  “Statistics are like bikinis. 
What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.”

As one who spectated, in first person,  non-enforcement of a broken law 
when police responded to where I was hit by a motorist, I feel the same 
about legislated morality. Bureaucracy attempts to create outcomes among 
the otherwise disinterested or uninspired. These are individual attributes 
that reflect well on larger populations when enough project them. It is a 
failure by generalization to not expect the exception, a remnant habit from 
when situational awareness and Mazlov's hierarchy framed my daily to-do 
list. 

Drivers don't avoid bicyclists because there are laws that say you'll get 
in trouble. It is a pop quiz for the individual at the wheel, a brief one 
question test that will demonstrate either their humanity, awareness and 
necessity to express concern for another or the validation of their step 
onto a slippery slope leading away from all that is good. 

I like to think that for my years and miles of cycling, the places it has 
taken me and the people I have met, that my personal statistical result is 
that more people are good, right and just versus otherwise. 

Andy Cheatham
Pittsburgh

On Friday, March 7, 2014 7:13:59 PM UTC-5, Garth wrote:
>
>
>   To me, I take all statistics with a grain of salt .  Every bit of 
> tests/data is based upon a certain set of subjective parameters , which in 
> turn fullfill themselves objectively.  All Subjective truth fulfills itself 
> objectively. 
>
> All the paths or legislation in the world will not make cycling "safe" , 
> or even "saf-er" (compared to who's definition ?), as there are infinite 
> subjective things fulfilling themselves objectively within each person when 
> you really think about it, the orchestration of the World *as each person 
> experiences it* (no two alike) is absolutely Awe-Inspiring. 
>

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