Quote: (03-21-2018 12:15 PM)questor70 Wrote:
That being said, driving a car is a PRIVILEGE, not a RIGHT. And a great many drivers on the road should have their licenses revoked because they are texting, drunk, sleepy, or are so old that their reaction-time is shot.
By recognizing something as a privilege you also recognize a power of other people to give or revoke that privilege to you as they see fit. It's a passive and subordinate position you are willingly taking.
Sure some regulations are necessary, just like with guns, to filter out those unfit to drive a car. And for most part these regulations already exist for both cars and guns.
If you see trough leftist rhetoric and agree that mass shootings are caused primarily by single-parent homes and drugs and sexual frustration not guns then you must also see that car accidents are not caused as much by cars but by other factors and you must try to remove those other factors first. Add periodic reaction time exams for drivers, that become more often the for old people. Reduce drug and alcohol consumption. Stand against the phone culture and texting. But you the problem is weak individuals love their phones more then their cars and their guns. How about you address that issue first?
Why not ban alcohol and phones instead of guns and cars? What do you love more? The answer to this question shows your true self and it shows the nature of our society who would rather keep their sweep escapism technologies rather then the technologies that empower individuals.
I am not really suggesting banning alcohol and phones, but you must think what do you love more in life? What person would you rather be - a car person, a gun person, a phone person, an alcohol person? What our society values most and what do the proposed technological advances tell about our society?
The argument that you will have more time to text safely in your autonomous car seems so petty and miserable to me. Look modern people are glued to their phones already and they want to sacrifice one of the few things that put them in control over something real for more virtual reality time? You can''t get more pathetic than that.
I can tell one thin about me - I NEVER drink because I just love driving so much. Some people hate being the designated driver but I love it. It make me always useful and in control of all the group of drunken party. My car, my driving my rules. I am always ready and prepared to drive be it an emergency situation or late night booty call or anything in between. I am always in control in my life and of my location. Should I abandon that for ruined health and fuzzy consciousness? Would I abandon that freedom for some more time in social media or texting? Of course not. I will always pity people who love these things more then freedom and having control over yourself and your surroundings. And I will be doing what I can to no t surrender the future to people with value and pleasure system that is opposite to mine, to people whom I consider to be pitiful.
What if someone told you that drinking alcohol is not a right but a privilege? Alcohol related deaths are extremely common too - domestic violence, liver problems, people losing homes, freezing on streets, falling over bridges, drunken fights - why not sell alcohol only to people who pass a psychiatric test and prove they can drink responsibly?
What if someone told you that using phone is not a right but a privilege? So many people die trying to take dangerous selfies. So many photos of naked people, child porn and revenge porn is being circulated trough phones. Why not ban phones? Or make regulations to test people's psychological health before they can get a phone?
There is a single reason why or society considers banning or reducing guns and cars, but not alcohol or phones. Because our society is weak and sick and loves their sins and their escapism more then virtues and freedom. Because most people love slavery and despise freedom. Now you think on which side of these things you are and what do you love more and what kind of a person that makes you?