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> Well, what if you do one of jobs that require you to drive? Don't do the thing that gets your license revoked? And if it happens, get a different job? > Plu

> Well, what if you do one of jobs that require you to drive? Don't do the thing that gets your license revoked? And if it happens, get a different job? > Plus, who said people in the developed countries don't commute, or that even if they have public transport, having to and waste extra hour or hours in many cases (to wait at stops and to change buses or subway lines, etc), is small matter in the extra effort, free time, and health impact on the person doing it compared to being able to just drive there? Well, if it's just convenience, then that seems to fit the definition of privilege, no? > Not everybody in Europe lives in Amsterdam or some such city, nicely close to walking distance or a single public transit line to work. This is a ridiculous strawman. You don't need to live in a major world city to have effective non-driving commute options around.

coldtea 8y ago
>Don't do the thing that gets your license revoked? And if it happens, get a different job? There are some comments that make me think "I want to see all these things happen to that person, to see how casually they'll dismiss the problem then, and if they'll ever figure out what empathy means". Really makes you wish those people losing their car and their job, because they fell behind on some student debt payment, and being unable to rise out of it. Add perhaps a few problems real people in those situations (which for them are dismissed as mere "personal failings) have, like spouses or parents or kids to take care of, some personal sickness, and so on. Maybe experiencing real life will help do with the smugness? >Well, if it's just convenience, then that seems to fit the definition of privilege, no? Being able to laugh away the pain of people in such situations (because you never were close to that, or have safety nets all around) fits the definition of privilege better.

coldtea 8y ago

>Don't do the thing that gets your license revoked? And if it happens, get a different job? There are some comments that make me think "I want to see all these things happen to that person, to see how casually they'll dismiss the problem then, and if they'll ever figure out what empathy means". Really makes you wish those people losing their car and their job, because they fell behind on some student debt payment, and being unable to rise out of it. Add perhaps a few problems real people in those situations (which for them are dismissed as mere "personal failings) have, like spouses or parents or kids to take care of, some personal sickness, and so on. Maybe experiencing real life will help do with the smugness? >Well, if it's just convenience, then that seems to fit the definition of privilege, no? Being able to laugh away the pain of people in such situations (because you never were close to that, or have safety nets all around) fits the definition of privilege better.