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Edit: to clarify: the message in the ad is actually ironic/satirical, mocking the advice for cyclists to wear high-viz at night.
It uses the same logic but inverts the parts and responsabilities, by suggesting to motorists (not cyclists) to apply bright paint on their cars.
So this ad is not pro or against high-viz, it's against victim blaming
Cross-posted from: https://mastodon.uno/users/rivoluzioneurbanamobilita/statuses/113544508246569296
More like shooting a gun at a shooting range, where you have a space you’re supposed to shoot, and someone is running across that range and gets hit. Are you a murderer then?
I get the “fuck cars” mentality, I’m with you, but making bad arguments doesn’t help our cause.
No. There is nowhere I, as a pedestrian, can go that is not downrange. I'm in one of the more walkable areas of my city, and I think fully half the square footage, between roads and parking is devoted to cars. No way for me to reach a grocery store restaurant or even bus stop without being downrange.
You've built your life around spraying automatic weapons fire into every room you walk into before you even look, so admitting that this is wrong is essentially admitting that your way of life is monstrous and your regard for humanity is at best disdainful in the shadow of your precious ford F1488 with spiked reaping grill.
You must live a really really weird life. I dunno if it's ultra sad or not, but it's definitely a bizarre worldview to wake up and think "everyone chosing to go to work in the only way available to them for most of the country is basically spraying an ak-47 everywhere they go" You can work to change that -- great, all for it. But presuming the world where you've already won is absolutely bonkers.
Thats the amount t of danger youre adding to the world. Its just a fact. You finding it necessary for your lifestyle does not make it safe or ethical any more than needing it for eternal youth makes bathing in the blood of virgins ethical for me.
Should I just die? No? Then I gotta serial murder a bunch teenagers and republicans and drain their blood.
And lemme tell ya; with the rates of childhood sexual assault we have in this country, these are not small numbers! Honestly its a lot of work. You should give murdering children and bathing in their blood to achieve immortality a little more respect.