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Fuck Cars

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (1 children)

Similarly, if I drive my car around the side of your house and into your back yard to run you over, I can’t claim “my foot slipped”.

I see one of those posts with cars crashed into houses every week somewhere. No murder charge.

[–] neatchee 1 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

Perhaps that's because... There usually aren't fatalities inside the home???

Like, not only is it a giant, loud object that can be seen coming in many cases, but the impact with the house exterior dissipates a huge portion of the energy.

When people get killed my a car, they don't die from the car hitting them. It's almost always the impact with the ground that causes severe head trauma. Otherwise it's a neck or spinal injury.

Those types of injuries are just way, way less likely to happen when a car drives into a building.

I'm getting really sick of people around here not showing even a modicum of logical thought and just screeching "CaRs BaD!!" every other sentence.

Fuck cars, for a lot of reasons. We don't need to make up new ones that are silly and illogical. We have plenty of really good reasons to say fuck cars that don't involve bullshit claims re: murder charges or a lack thereof