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Path: num2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!num1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!number.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!newsfeed01.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!newsfeed.straub-nv.de!weretis.net!feeder2.news.weretis.net!ecngs!feeder2.ecngs.de!zen.net.uk!hamilton.zen.co.uk!shaftesbury.zen.co.uk.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID:  From: Guy Cuthbertson  Newsgroups: uk.rec.cycling Subject: Re: Facebook incites violence Date: Sun, 24 Jan 2010 16:50:34 -0000 References: <2btll5dlej6b2rqekaqenk03tmud53g57p@4ax.com> Lines: 22 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: MicroPlanet-Gravity/2.9.14 Organization: Zen Internet NNTP-Posting-Host: 981ada19.news.zen.co.uk X-Trace: DXC=fHS6:A4F?PKbinC`K2hQ, kije.remove@this.bit.freeuk.com.munge says... > > www.facebook.com/group.php?v=wall&ref=search&gid=16499362175#/group.php?v=wall&ref=search&gid=16499362175

Of course, many of the comments are by cyclists inciting violence against motorists, but that's OK isn't it? Cyclists are allowed to be violent, break sensible laws, be unjustifiably hostile to all motorists, etc, because they're using a morally superior form of transport and they're justified in compensating for the supposed persecution they've suffered from all quarters since the year dot. That's why you would never complain about violence by cyclists towards motorists, only the other way round (even when it's only *alleged* violence by motorists towards cyclists).

Obvious bias like that does the cycling cause no favours. (And no, you didn't specifically mention violence by motorists against cyclists, but you meant that didn't you?)

Bottom line if you believe the car-haters: when a cyclist does something, it's always OK, and when a motorist does something, it never is.