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Path: number1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!postnews.google.com!c65g2000hsa.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Message-ID:  From: Nuxx Bar  Newsgroups: uk.rec.cycling Subject: Why Oh Why? Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2008 12:32:17 -0700 (PDT) Lines: 82 Organization: http://groups.google.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 88.105.145.93 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: posting.google.com 1217014337 23172 127.0.0.1 (25 Jul 2008 19:32:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2008 19:32:17 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: c65g2000hsa.googlegroups.com; posting-host=88.105.145.93; posting-account=7_6kYAkAAABD6HrjM0VxehwvZOKMxm4g User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-GB; rv:1.9.0.1) Gecko/2008070208 Firefox/3.0.1,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Bytes: 5853 Xref: perfectly-safe.chapmancentral.co.uk uk.rec.cycling:658941

So now that we've established beyond reasonable doubt that Chapman, Spindrift and their followers don't like motorists, I'd really like to know why. I honestly don't understand it. I can understand terrorists: even though I detest them and their values, I understand why they do what they do. It's the same for thieves, rapists, and other scumbags. But why would anyone so passionately hate motorists?

Why would anyone be bothered by the thought of people driving, going at the speed they want to go at (as long as it's safe for the conditions), going where they want to go, when they want to go, and enjoying it? Why do some people so despise the wonderful degree of freedom and individual choice that the car gives so many? Why would standing on a motorway bridge, watching cars flowing nicely and getting to their destination quickly without being hindered, induce so much fury in someone? What makes that person so desperate to make things difficult for those drivers below him? Why does he care so much about something that doesn't affect him in the slightest?

I can understand authoritarian governments not liking the lack of control that they have over someone who's driving. But why on Earth would a member of the public get so het up at the thought of other people finding motoring useful and pleasurable? Why would a member of the public hate motorists so much that they would feel the need to make up rubbish about "speed kills" and "man-made climate change" in an attempt to throw obstacles in the motorists' way? What's *really* at the root of it all?

Is it simply socialism or Communism? Were these people previously supporters of Communist regimes, who were furious when they were overthrown and are now looking for ways of inflicting their philosophy on others via the back door? It's certainly something that many believe is true of AGW advocates, so why not motorist-haters (who, after all, are invariably AGW advocates as well)? If this is the case, can't the motorist-hating Communists see how deplorable it is for someone to attempt to force their (failed) ideologies onto society, using dishonest tactics which are designed to circumvent all debate and play on people's understandable wish to make the roads safer and help the environment? How *dare* they conspire against democracy and the fabric of our society like this? Who the hell do they think they are, and if their vision of society is so wonderul, why has it repeatedly failed, and why are they so unwilling to admit what they actually want? And besides, when the means involves knowingly killing thousands of people with speed cameras, how can
 * any* end justify it? It's DISGUSTING.

Another possible explanation is that they're nothing more than crazed control freaks, who simply can't stand the idea of other people being put in charge of powerful machines, and being allowed to decide for themselves when to accelerate, decelerate, turn or (especially) overtake. We've all met such people: they simply can't abide it when anyone else is in control of the car, the computer, the television or anything else. The "motorist-haters are control freaks" theory would certainly explain why most of them hypocritically drive themselves.

Or maybe they're part of the army of joyless cretins who seek to make everyone else as joyless as them, by stopping them doing anything that might be fun. But I don't see how that could be the case, since (for example) most motorist-haters seem to be pretty relaxed about rules concerning the use of alcohol and drugs, and what consenting adults get up to privately in the bedroom, which genuine fun-haters certainly wouldn't be.

I can't really think of any other remotely logical reason why anyone would hate motorists as much as the trolls here do. So are they all Communists, control freaks or both? Or is there some other reason after all? It's difficult to explore the warped mindset of the ridiculous motorist-hater, and doing it for too long can't be particularly healthy. So this fascinating piece (well *you've* read it up to here) must now come to an end, and I will have to have a think about whether there are other possible reasons for the motorist- haters' absurd position, and also just how likely Communism and/or control freakery are as explanations. If any of the motorist-haters or ex-motorist-haters who are now better could explain just what their problem is/was with those awful, awful drivers, I'd be eternally grateful.

Bye for now, chaps!

Guy C (the one who isn't a lying, motorist-hating, murder camera-supporting, unbelievably pompous troll whose head's so far up his own arse that it's more or less back where it started)