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- From: "Michael Smith" <p00004@psilink.com>
- Subject: Re: Bike paths (FROM Re: Cycling and Environmentalism)
- In-Reply-To: <1992Dec27.200025.17084@hpcvusn.cv.hp.com>
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- Organization: Performance Systems Int'l
- Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 19:20:11 GMT
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- >DATE: Sun, 27 Dec 1992 20:00:25 GMT
- >FROM: Harry Phinney <harry@cv.hp.com>
- >
- >p00004@psilink.com ("Michael Smith") writes:
- >: Also, now that I think of it, wouldn't a *love* of cars be more likekly
- >: to bias one's thinking about what's good for cyclists than hatred would
- >: do?
- >
- >How so?[....] In what way do you think my love of cars
- >biases my thinking about what is good for cyclists?
-
- Dunno. What do you think is good for cyclists?
-
- But seriously, folks...
-
- Did you see the beginning of this exchange? Somebody (I forget who) was
- attempting to dismiss some point by saying that other writers and I just
- "hate cars." After I recovered from this crushing refutation, it
- occurred to me that a hatred of cars would have, at best, a kind of
- vague, Gestaltish influence on one's thinking about the "good of
- cyclists" (John Forester went into this possibility in more detail in an
- earlier post). But I could easily envision a *love* of cars having
- a more direct effect, since (let's face it) there seems to be something
- structural at work that makes a great many motorists quite resentful of
- cyclists.
-
- Perhaps this is not the case where you live, and if so I
- congratulate you on your good fortune. I'm not so lucky. Indeed, I've
- been thinking about organizing some motorist pathology tours of my area
- -- the way xviii s. Londoners used to visit Bedlam to laugh at the
- inmates. Good clean fun.
-
- --Michael Smith
-
-