02-05-2010, 11:22 PM
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Moderate your Moderation.
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Originally Posted by dcb
I just find the safety discussions tiresome. The biggest risk you take is being in or around cars, after that it is pretty much diminishing returns.
But I will say that nobody ever accidently killed someone else while riding a bicycle or walking that I know of. It probably happened, once, but one would have to be delusional to think bigger vehicles are "safer" in any but the most selfish respects, and it isn't much improvement in that respect if even.
If it is true that bigger causes more damage and is more likely to hit something because of size and reduced handling (basic physics right?) then at some point all that extra damage and casualties has to be considered premeditated, no?
I doubt any U.S. politicians are going to run on that platform any time soon though
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The words "Conspiracy to commit" just ran across my brain... LOL.
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