[dog_boxer72]

Have you ever stopped to ponder how your very existence actually does such damage to everyone else around you, eating up food that could be for someone else, probably by killing an animal, taking up space for your house which could be public parklands, creating waste products and other likewise negative outcomes?

[ChainOfFools]

> Have you ever stopped to ponder how your very existence actually does such damage to everyone else around you

Yes, and you should go out of your way to minimize this as much as possible, as a high priority of life in a shared space with other people. Rather than make it worse, on purpose, because "f150ck you, I got mine" (which is at least honest), or failing that, whatever excuse serves to mask the juvenile selfishness of this attitude.

[cooper_ganglia]

Not to mention that every breath converts breathable oxygen into the deadly greenhouse gas, CO2! The mere act of existence means that you are, forever and always, contributing to climate change!

I’m so exhausted of the constant online morality policing over such inane, trivial things like this. Hell, it’s even electric rather than a gas-guzzler like the normal F-150, and people are still screeching because “iT’S tOo BiG!”. Yeah bro, because trucks aren’t made to be DoorDash vehicles in NYC, they’re made to haul RVs to the lake and lumber to the build site.

[digital-cygnet]

Like I mentioned in my comment, the goal wasn't to morality-police, but to point out how the externalities of truck ownership in a dense area fall on others.

And I disagree that it's inane or trivial. Motor vehicle crashes kill ~45k Americans per year, the leading preventable cause of death for everyone 4-21 years old and the second-leading cause for 22-67 year olds [1], and the numbers are climbing. As my comment pointed out, light trucks are ~50% deadlier in collisions with pedestrians (don't have the data on-hand for other vehicle inhabitants). Anecdotally, I have friends and family members who have been hit by cars and lucky enough to survive, but (knowing the details of the cases) likely would not have were they hit by a 5'-bonnet-height truck.

I agree trucks aren't made for tooling around cities, but for heavier duty activites. What's upsetting is that more and more vehicles like this _are_ being used for city and suburban daily driving where all of their externalities are at their worst and none of their utility is needed.

[1] https://injuryfacts.nsc.org/all-injuries/deaths-by-demograph...

[waveBidder]

Do you not consider the negative externalities when choosing what to do? Pretty sure that's normal behavior, and disregarding your impact is antisocial.