Thread: Need to rant...
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Old 02-19-2013, 10:48 AM
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Originally Posted by Brian Carlton View Post
Correct.

However, if one of the idiots violates a stop sign (which they do frequently), the resulting carnage is not to you.
And? Are they still an idiot if they hit me?

....yes.
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You were the one who put yourself and your vehicle at risk by failing to make a good plan ahead of the event. Once the event occurs, the outcome is now out of your control.
Well duh.
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You fail to see the irony of the situation whereby you made a conscious choice to put yourself and your vehicle in potential harm, however you wish to rail against those individuals for which you already have prior knowledge will likely do you harm.
I've already admitted my culpability in the matter, in the OP and several times since then.

I see no irony. What I do see is certain persons unable to realize that a wrong is a wrong, regardless of another wrong.

You, like tbo, don't see the application of a tu quoque fallacy.
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It would be far more appropriate to rant against yourself in this thread. It is a certainty that the behavior of those that encountered you and your flares could be predicted in advance (the only variable is the degree of their idiocy). Thankfully, you're not writing about a totalled Mercedes.............or worse.
Alrighty then. You are never again allowed to comment on a single bit of wrongdoing in the world because you have also perpetrated some form of wrongdoing in the past.

Certainly it's just as logical as your suggestion.
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