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by mdp2021 12 days ago
For hopefully most people, it should be attributed to the "Wait, now I have such a freedom and power?".

Opposite to "before the invention of bicycle, people married within a radius in the order of the mile" (can't remember the exact stat right now).
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ZeroGravitas 12 days ago
It's like that feeling of power you get from owning a gun that you only bought because you feared all the other people who owned guns.
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mdp2021 11 days ago
Comparing freedom of movement to a killing device is beyond any threshold of plausibility. And the whole sentence above is unintelligible here.

No, it's really that the ability to move at ease is priceless.

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ZeroGravitas 11 days ago
Car crashes kill roughly as many Americans each year as guns.

If you add pollution impacts, cars double the yearly deaths of guns.

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mdp2021 11 days ago
> Car[s...] kill

And in a Cost/Risk/Benefit computation, cars remain incommensurately invaluable. Because one's Quality of Life without them would simply be destroyed, comparatively. The moving "castle" (legal term in the USA) can be more important than the house in crucial regards.

The point attempted at post 48501189 remains unintelligible. That cars imply risks and externalities does not clarify it.

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