Doug wrote:
> On 20 Jul, 12:16, John Wright
pegasus.f2s.com> wrote:>> Doug wrote:
>>> On 19 Jul, 08:43, "Brimstone"
yahoo.co.uk> wrote:>>>> Doug wrote:
>>>>> Why am I not surprised that among the motorists who dominate qnd
>>>>> infest this transport newsgroup are those whose only response to
>>>>> confrontation is one of physical violence? Is it any wonder that ther
>>>>> is so much mayhem and road rage on our roads with such people actually
>>>>> being granted a driving licence?
>>>> As you have argued on many occasions Doug, there are justifiable reasons for
>>>> violence. You've supported unprovoked violence on many occasions but when
>>>> it's being directed against people whose aims you support you suddenly
>>>> become less than enthusiastic, why is that?
>>> You are mistaken as usual. While I accept that violence may sometimes
>>> be justified you have been in constant denial on the subject, as have
>>> many of the motorists who dominate and infest this NG. It is they who
>>> dish it out but can't take it.
>> Indeed, I think you will find a very low tolerance for violence in this
>> group, as you have found before.
>>
>> "violence is the last resort of the incompetent" is one rule I like to
>> abide by.
>>
> Only a tolerance to the violence of others, while they themselves seem
> free to threaten it quite often on this very NG. As for motorists as a
> whole, it would be difficult to find a more violent section of
> society, killing as they do some 2,000 people a year and seriously
> injuring many more, which they airily like to brush aside as mere
> accidents while blaming their victims for getting in their way.
There you go again, taking pleasure from what are tragic events in other
people's lives. When will you learn? We all regret the deaths and
injuries in society from any cause - including transport. True violence
has only been offered in response to the violent acts of those people
you supposedly look up to, like ARTs who dig up people's grannies,
threaten people's livelihoods and other violent and intimidatory acts,
and the recent case of vandalising other people's property.
You hit me and I might well hit you back. In a Christian sense you turn
the other cheek. But I won't offer you violence. Don't accuse me of
being a Christian either.
--
John Wright
"What would happen if you eliminated the autism genes from the gene pool?
You would have a bunch of people standing around in a cave, chatting and
socialising and not getting anything done!" - Professor Temple Grandin
