Nuxx:149da2d3-e52e-4092-8008-b56898766c0e@r13g2000vbr.googlegroups.com

Path: num2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!num1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!number.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!postnews.google.com!r13g2000vbr.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Message-ID: <149da2d3-e52e-4092-8008-b56898766c0e@r13g2000vbr.googlegroups.com> From: Nuxx Bar  Newsgroups: uk.rec.cycling Subject: Could Someone Please Explain... Date: Tue, 19 May 2009 23:33:39 -0700 (PDT) Lines: 24 Organization: http://groups.google.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 86.145.66.20 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: posting.google.com 1242801219 26275 127.0.0.1 (20 May 2009 06:33:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 20 May 2009 06:33:39 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: r13g2000vbr.googlegroups.com; posting-host=86.145.66.20; posting-account=7_6kYAkAAABD6HrjM0VxehwvZOKMxm4g User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729),gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Bytes: 2525 Xref: perfectly-safe.chapmancentral.co.uk uk.rec.cycling:702663

I wonder why it is that when a pedestrian runs onto a level crossing while the lights are flashing, and gets run over by a train, those on URC are quite happy to blame the pedestrian without a moment's hesitation, yet when a pedestrian runs onto a road while they don't have right of way and gets run over by a car, many on URC don't seem half as keen to blame the pedestrian, and instead start trying to find fault with the motorist for "speeding" (or some other accusation which they know can't ever be properly countered because it's so uselessly vague)?

Could it be that the people in question think that the train driver has a "legitimate" reason for being there, whereas the car driver doesn't, and they're just using a pretended concern about "road safety" as a way of complaining about people driving without admitting that they have a prejudice against motorists? Isn't it rather callous to abuse a genuine and important cause such as safety for such selfish and spurious reasons? And if these people are so convinced that motorists shouldn't be driving, why do they not simply admit to thinking that, instead of hiding behind proper causes such as safety? Are they ashamed of their hatred of motorists, in which case why do they hate motorists at all? Can they not help it or something?

It's all rather odd isn't it? Can anyone explain it to me please? Thanks in advance.