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It may be better to just adopt right to roam.

• K0balt 3y ago
  Nobody walks in the USA, and vehicles often do significant damage to property. Often, the point of driving the vehicle is effectively to do damage, recreational slides, drifts, spinning out, etc are all normal behaviors for off readers and the environmental damage done is often extreme and long lasting, while damage to animals, crops /trees, property, and roadways can often run into the tens of thousands of dollars for a group of “off road enthusiasts” frolicking for 20 minutes. For the most part (with exceptions of course) the people (in the USA) that you end up dealing with that go on private property thinking they are “in the middle of nowhere” are doing so with no intention of being in any way responsible for their actions. The intention is often rather to “cut loose” aka engage in behaviors that would be considered too destructive, annoying, or illegal to do in a place where you might be held accountable for the consequences of your decisions. IMHO this is an unhealthy memetic crystal common in US culture especially (but hardly exclusively) — the idea of costless externalization of costs and consequences. It goes hand in hand with the tacit approval of theft when the amount involved is large enough. “Oceans Eleven” wouldn’t be nearly as cool if they were skillfully stealing televisions from suburban homes lol.
  • iudqnolq 3y ago
    Nobody* roams in Scotland. *Well of course people do, just as people hike in the USA. But in both cases it's something the vast majority of people don't do and that's totally fine.