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    3 months ago

    Your personal opinion is that you should risk the lives of pedestrians by riding a vehicle in their path?

    Its not about laws, its about morality.

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      3 months ago

      Weird thing is that you can ride slowly and safely while passing pedestrians.

      Making a general statement like this is just completely ignorant of the reality of living in cities where car drivers HATE bikes and will absolutely kill you if you try riding in the road.

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      3 months ago

      Yes. I also think doctors should risk the lives of patients by prescribing antibiotics for bacterial infections. This is a risk because some patients have undiagnosed penicillin allergies. There is always a level of acceptable risk. Given that nobody has ever been killed by a bicycle they weren’t riding in my country, I find the risk acceptable. The pedestrians on the route I take have a higher chance of dying from lung cancer due to car pollution, PER CAR, than from me killing them.

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      2 months ago

      I mean, getting hit by a bike hurts, but it doesn’t kill you. Still, I’m not a fan of people endangering and inconveniencing others so they themselves can be safer either. But that’s what people are like. That’s one of the reasons everyone should be pro bike lane, even if they don’t cycle.

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        2 months ago

        I’ve been in cities where the “bike lane” was a “Parked car door zone”

        Some of these cities literally made it illegal to not ride in the bike lanes. Not everyone should be pro bike lane, especially when they’re death lanes