If the moral objection is considered valid, then the linkage is legitimate.
If the moral objection is invalid, then the linkage is valid only in the mind of the subject, and it becomes a question of pure psychology.
The personal automobile is one manifestation of our pattern of industrialization, which involves liquidating natural resources as rapidly as possible without regard to side effects and calling it "economic growth". The price of the pattern is paid by the human poor, non-humans, and future generations of both.
The car is not in any way unique as such a manifestation. It is, however, arguably the worst single such example in terms of total destructive impact.
There is no such thing as a legitimate right to drive in the context of our current technology and culture, any more than there is a right to sit in a room and play WoW all day.
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Re: What you are about to hear may be shocking.
Date: 2007-05-01 12:59 am (UTC)If the moral objection is invalid, then the linkage is valid only in the mind of the subject, and it becomes a question of pure psychology.
The personal automobile is one manifestation of our pattern of industrialization, which involves liquidating natural resources as rapidly as possible without regard to side effects and calling it "economic growth". The price of the pattern is paid by the human poor, non-humans, and future generations of both.
The car is not in any way unique as such a manifestation. It is, however, arguably the worst single such example in terms of total destructive impact.
There is no such thing as a legitimate right to drive in the context of our current technology and culture, any more than there is a right to sit in a room and play WoW all day.