🚀 go-pugleaf

:)>You seem to be limiting your thoughts on this subject to situations where
:)>you can predict what is going to happen -- where traffic flow is relatively
:)>static.  You are only one piece of what can be an essentially random and 
:)>highly dynamic situation.  You don't always have your lane; drivers
around
:)>you don't always behave in a predictable or even rational manner; and
:)>animals and children trotting onto a roadway can introduce interesting 
:)>forcing functions.
:)>
:)>I can imagine _lots_ of situations where simply "letting up on the hot 
:)>foot" isn't going to do a damn thing and may even worsen the situation.  
:)>Have you heard of the phrase "no-win situation"?  

It sounds to me like you're grasping at straws now. are you even trying to
aviod and accident. An "accident" is something that is unavoidable and
since most "accidents" are avoidable, they're not really accidents now,
are they? How is slowing down and letting some other asshole drive next to
the semi going to worsen the situation? ya see if ya let some other idiot
drive next to the semi, when something happens, he was the one stupid
enough to drive right beside the semi, which is in some states illeagle,
so he gets crunched. In my state it is "not suggested" thusly if you get
into an accident diving next to a semi; you are at fault, thusly, it was
not an "accident" because it was something you could have avaioded.


:)>
:)>I will agree, however, that most accidents are preventable.  I just 
:)>have a problem with this "I can _always_ do X, therefore Y will _never_
:)>happen" attitude.  Murphy is alive and well, and can be found everywhere.
:)>

You can let Murphy ride in your car. i gave up on murphy a long time ago.
And ya know what, I stopped getting into "accidents." Stop accepting that
"anything that can go wrong, will and at the worst possible time" and
start living to aviod what can go wrong. You have a choice you can keep
being passive and letting the world go on around you. Or you can join it.

Galaxie
(wonders if this is clear enough for you)

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