[osigurdson]

Maybe they just like it. The assumption seems to be that if they didn't have anyone to impress they would buy a Honda Fit because it is better (by some definition of better). Even if they are just buying it to impress people, who cares? Let them do what they want.

[chimpanzee]

> if they are just buying it to impress people, who cares?

The buyer cares. And if the buying is detrimental to more than the buyer himself (eg wastes resources, harms the environment, overtaxes infrastructure), then it makes sense for others to let that buyer know how they actually feel.

But I agree with your suggestion that it is entirely possible for a truck buyer to have reasons other than those supposed by the author.

[osigurdson]

You seem to suggest that the truck buyer is somehow causing you / others harm. By what metric?

[kitkat_new]

use of limited resources, air pollution, noise, higher infrastructure cost, global warming, more kills in traffic

[osigurdson]

So fine then with a huge, shiny, lifted F-350 that the owner drives 5km once per week to the ice cream shop? Or is your largest issue perhaps "redneck culture"?

[coldtea]

Why would he be fine with a "huge, shiny, lifted F-350 that the owner drives 5km once per week to the ice cream shop"?

Didn't he already explained he's against buying of trucks when there's no real need?

[osigurdson]

Yes, and then explained precisely the harms being caused to them personally - all based on distance driven. Please just admit the thing you really don't like is the culture associated with large trucks. No one "needs" anything, least of all any kind of vehicle.