I should have stated early on that most of my comments about the inappropriateness of cars is in the context of urban areas. Individual vehicles make sense in rural environments, though we need to get the efficiency up over 20%, and bring cost and price into alignment (e.g. carbon tax, plus roadbuilding and maintenance funded 100% by gas taxes). It's in the city that the car is such a dramatically poor solution.
You're telling me, in effect, that because a man spends 24 hours a day in a room with a bed, a toilet, and a computer, playing World of Warcraft every waking moment, that he won't object -- more importantly, that we won't curtail his freedom -- if we lock the door. It is with this point that I disagree vigorously.
Your analogy is conflating two issues: the moral/philosophical case (curtailing freedom) with the psychology of behavior (whether or not he objects). I've been talking about the later issue almost exclusively here.
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Date: 2007-05-01 12:46 am (UTC)You're telling me, in effect, that because a man spends 24 hours a day in a room with a bed, a toilet, and a computer, playing World of Warcraft every waking moment, that he won't object -- more importantly, that we won't curtail his freedom -- if we lock the door. It is with this point that I disagree vigorously.
Your analogy is conflating two issues: the moral/philosophical case (curtailing freedom) with the psychology of behavior (whether or not he objects). I've been talking about the later issue almost exclusively here.