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It's astounding to me that someone could take having a car into their identity so deeply that they see suggestions that we should reduce car use as attacking th

• mordae 3y ago
  It's probably not about that for most of the car owners. Most probably feel subconsciously threatened by the prospect of having to actually talk out public space utilization with other people. Meaning they wouldn't be able to rely on one-sided transactional relationships and would have to exercise their empathy muscles and acknowledge other people as fellow humans with their own needs. And that's super hard to do when you are under constant pressure to perform to the point you stop caring for others and begin to ruthlessly transact. Because you eventually realize you probably aren't owed anything by the wider community and thus worry that you might be marginalized if things changed. So you cling to individualism and try to promote it en large so that nobody is able to judge you. So that you can survive another day.
  • shrimp_emoji 3y ago
    Damn. I just don't wanna get mugged or raped. D: