Have you notice how the general opinion is that people getting hit by cars somehow deserved it? My best friend was hit by a text-and-drive kindof woman. He was an athlete and now he can't walk more than a few hundred meters.
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I'm not talking about people who throw themselves under wheel. I'm talking about legitimately crossing the street at a stop and some asshole honks you or attacks you for being in the way. There seems to be a general consensus that traffic flow is more important than people's life. Just see how many were begging for protesters to get run over, on reddit for example.
I've never seen people supporting a driver for honking or attacking someone who was legitimately crossing the street...
Good for you then :)
And good for you pretending that it's the pervasive attitude, I guess.
"I never saw it so it doesn't exist".
"This totally exists, just trust me bro"
I'm gonna take a wild guess and imagine your'e driving a car on the daily, dont ya?
Nope, I just live in reality. You should try it some time.
In reality all of the people I know who are cycling got hit by a car. Hell in this very thread you can see people talking about it. What's your point exactly?
That has nothing to do with your claim...
Your claim says that the majority of people would applaud the driver who hit them. Which is nonsense.
A vocal minority of people definitely would. Now if you can stop invalidating my experience both on the road and speaking to people, it's unpleasant.
A vocal minority is the exact opposite of a majority...
You're doing that yourself.
Imagine siding with the polluters lmao.
Imagine being logically consistent.
https://www.reddit.com/r/NoStupidQuestions/comments/jilv7l/is_it_illegal_to_run_over_someone_who_is_blocking/ https://www.reddit.com/r/legaladvice/comments/4ts5hk/can_i_run_over_protesters_megathread/ https://www.reddit.com/r/dashcams/comments/qoidvh/when_someone_confronts_you_its_usually_best_to/ https://www.reddit.com/r/iamatotalpieceofshit/comments/pvv7s8/16yo_kid_runs_over_a_group_of_cyclists_trying_to/
I'm sorry, this is what you think "legitimately crossing the road" looks like?
Ah yes we're only supposed to cross the road when our motorized overlord allowed us too.
Good job contradicting yourself, kiddo
Two of the links are discussing lawful fact, not morality, and even if they were, the commenters are saying "no, you can't use your car to 'encourage' people to move". The other two have commenters saying the driver committing vehicular manslaughter is crazy and obviously in the wrong. Particularly the last link has people expressing sympathy for the victims and animosity to the driver.
Nothing here suggests that victim blaming is common when someone driving does something illegal and injures a pedestrian.
Yeah yeah I get it. You do not want to see the problem, so there is no problem. Again, I guess my friends getting hit by car, or the several attack I personally had been subjected too for cycling too slow or crossing the street counts for nothing.
No it doesn't count for nothing, and I'm sorry you and your friends went through that. But if people blamed you when the drivers were clearly in the wrong, that takes a special kind of being an asshole that the average person just isn't.
Not sure. Like yeah ramming into someone intentionally is not the norm, you are right. But I have seen most of my friend and family being negligent on the road as well. It's a norm here.
It is pervasive though.
No it's not.