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Article #59Re: Britons unmoved by pro-cycling campaigns
From: Ben C
Date: Sat, 11 Jun 2011 09:07
Date: Sat, 11 Jun 2011 09:07
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On 2011-06-05, Steve Firth <%steve%@malloc.co.uk> wrote: [...] > At least none of the other uses that you identify try to dignify the > activity by pretending that it is "transport". They are ways for people > to get a little mild exercise and to do something "fun", i.e. they are > toys. Bike riders, for some reason, try to make out that they are saving > the planet and as a corollorary suggest that because they are saving the > planet that everyone should ignore their law-breaking. Is that true? I reckon the bike riders who think they're saving the planet are mostly the ones who don't break the law. It follows that anyone who thinks that cycling saves the planet is gullible, and therefore likely also not to use their judgment about which laws to break and when. There's also a high correlation between sanctimoniousness, which is associated with car-hatism and planet-hugging, and excessive law-abidement.
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