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by osigurdson 740 days ago
You seem to suggest that the truck buyer is somehow causing you / others harm. By what metric?
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kitkat_new 740 days ago
use of limited resources, air pollution, noise, higher infrastructure cost, global warming, more kills in traffic
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osigurdson 740 days ago
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"?
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coldtea 740 days ago
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?

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osigurdson 739 days ago
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.
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coldtea 739 days ago
>Yes, and then explained precisely the harms being caused to them personally - all based on distance driven.

To everybody, naturally including them personally.

And none of the harms are based on distance driven. US-sized trucks are worse than smaller regular cars on those metrics for the same distances too.

>Please just admit the thing you really don't like is the culture associated with large trucks

One can dislike both you know.

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osigurdson 739 days ago
How much compensation, should you personally receive from the hypothetical situation described above?
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