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Originally Posted by Frank Lee
I believe this is what churches teach- do whatever the heck you want; as long as you believe and repent it'll be OK in the end?  
That's a pretty cool "out" though- I think I will adopt it and apply it to whatever I find convenient, such as: Hmmm, I think that x person is too dumb to live and I will remove him from the living. Why not? It's OK in the animal kingdom!  |
It bears mentioning that I'm
here and have demonstrated both interest and participation in impact-reduction behaviors - and can be safely assumed I carry this with me everywhere I go. It's nonetheless important for us to understand how our behaviors scale, and what is or is not realistic.
If you're celibate, eat municipal waste and pass pure oxygen, throw all the stones you want.
So in the really real world, people won't give up automatics. Nor should they - instead of suggesting we take a step backward on transmission design, why don't we suggest eliminating the transmission entirely? I don't see much development happening on
external combustion engines which don't care what fuel they burn/discharge/accumulate, don't require any sort of transmission whatsoever, and should require far fewer parts (and less weight) than the powertrains we're accustomed to in our cars today. Commenting that people "should" be able to operate a manual transmission is comparable to commenting that they "should" be able to saddle a horse or program a VCR to record America's Funniest Home Videos...