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Author: PaulPaul Date: Sep 9, 2008 12:08
I hate being cut off in traffic on my way home from work. Can't do
anything about it. The cowards know they can get away with it.
Otherwise, if they knew I could bash their brains in with a brick,
they wouldn't do it.
I hate being powerless. I hate this society, where you can't rely on
natural human instinct to defend yourself. Our humanity has been taken
away.
Sure, the guy cutting me off doesn't deserve his head to be bashed in.
He doesn't even know me. And maybe he's cutting me off because someone
else cut him off 5 minutes before. Maybe he's a nice guy like me, sick
of being disrespected and doing the little he can to vent his
frustration (by cutting me off). maybe he has a family, like me.
But still. This is the problem. It's not that I want to go around
flying off the cuff whenever someone does something wrong to me, but
it's not just me. We're all powerless.
Bah.
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Author: tgtg Date: Sep 9, 2008 16:05
On Sep 9, 3:08Â pm, Paul gmail.com> wrote:> I hate being cut off in traffic on my way home from work. Can't do
> anything about it. The cowards know they can get away with it.
> Otherwise, if they knew I could bash their brains in with a brick,
> they wouldn't do it.
>
> I hate being powerless. I hate this society, where you can't rely on
> natural human instinct to defend yourself. Our humanity has been taken
> away.
>
> Sure, the guy cutting me off doesn't deserve his head to be bashed in.
> He doesn't even know me. And maybe he's cutting me off because someone
> else cut him off 5 minutes before. Maybe he's a nice guy like me, sick
> of being disrespected and doing the little he can to vent his
> frustration (by cutting me off). maybe he has a family, like me.
>
> But still. This is the problem. It's not that I want to go around
> flying off the cuff whenever someone does something wrong to me, but
> it's not just me. We're all powerless.
> ...
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Author: Robert CohenRobert Cohen Date: Sep 9, 2008 18:53
On Sep 9, 7:05Â pm, tg earthlink.net> wrote:> On Sep 9, 3:08Â pm, Paul gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> I hate being cut off in traffic on my way home from work. Can't do
>> anything about it. The cowards know they can get away with it.
>> Otherwise, if they knew I could bash their brains in with a brick,
>> they wouldn't do it.
>
>> I hate being powerless. I hate this society, where you can't rely on
>> natural human instinct to defend yourself. Our humanity has been taken
>> away.
>
>> Sure, the guy cutting me off doesn't deserve his head to be bashed in.
>> He doesn't even know me. And maybe he's cutting me off because someone
>> else cut him off 5 minutes before. Maybe he's a nice guy like me, sick
>> of being disrespected and doing the little he can to vent his ...
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Author: jjsjjs Date: Sep 10, 2008 07:55
>I hate being cut off in traffic on my way home from work. Can't do
> anything about it. The cowards know they can get away with it.
> Otherwise, if they knew I could bash their brains in with a brick,
> they wouldn't do it.
You can only change your own life, and that is immense power. Move. Quit the
job that enslaves you to the automobile. Screw the guilt trips. If you have
a family, inform them of the benefits. If they don't like it, leave. They
will never learn to leave the rat-race trap while you are stuck in it, and
if they don't want to follow, then no harm.
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Author: ShrikebackShrikeback Date: Sep 10, 2008 09:04
On Sep 9, 12:08Â pm, Paul gmail.com> wrote:> I hate being cut off in traffic on my way home from work. Can't do
> anything about it. The cowards know they can get away with it.
> Otherwise, if they knew I could bash their brains in with a brick,
> they wouldn't do it.
This reminds me of a Harlan Ellison short story
where people have the right to duel on the freeway.
So they armor their cars and mount missle launchers
and lasers and so on. I guess it's his take on the
California freeway system.
> I hate being powerless. I hate this society, where you can't rely on
> natural human instinct to defend yourself. Our humanity has been taken
> away.
But that's okay; we weren't doing anything useful with it
anyway.
> Sure, the guy cutting me off doesn't deserve his head to be bashed in.
Maybe he does for reasons you don't know about.
It all depends on what your definition of the word,
"deserve" is. Just what _is_ justice, anyway?
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Author: PaulPaul Date: Sep 11, 2008 18:17
On Sep 10, 10:55Â am, "jjs" wrote:
>>I hate being cut off in traffic on my way home from work. Can't do
>> anything about it. The cowards know they can get away with it.
>> Otherwise, if they knew I could bash their brains in with a brick,
>> they wouldn't do it.
>
> You can only change your own life, and that is immense power. Move. Quit the
> job that enslaves you to the automobile. Screw the guilt trips. If you have
> a family, inform them of the benefits. If they don't like it, leave. They
> will never learn to leave the rat-race trap while you are stuck in it, and
> if they don't want to follow, then no harm.
Quit the job. Great. So how do I feed my family? I'm not a farmer. Are
we supposed to live in squalor, in the ghetto, just so I don't have to
be a part of the rat race?
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Author: jjsjjs Date: Sep 12, 2008 13:19
"Paul" gmail.com> wrote in message
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On Sep 10, 10:55 am, "jjs" wrote:>>I hate being cut off in traffic on my way home from work. Can't do
>> anything about it. The cowards know they can get away with it.
>> Otherwise, if they knew I could bash their brains in with a brick,
>> they wouldn't do it.
>
> You can only change your own life, and that is immense power. Move. Quit
> the
> job that enslaves you to the automobile. Screw the guilt trips. If you
> have
> a family, inform them of the benefits. If they don't like it, leave. They
> will never learn to leave the...
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