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It’s not intended to be inflammatory. It’s the reality that many people operating vehicles are not aware of your (bike) presence and that their careless actions
by throw9away6 3y ago
It’s not intended to be inflammatory. It’s the reality that many people operating vehicles are not aware of your (bike) presence and that their careless actions could easily result in your death or serious injuries. Often times people fail to follow traffic rules and create situations that pose little danger to them but a lot of danger to pedestrians and bike riders.
- dang 3y agoI believe you about your intent but we have to moderate these things by effect—or rather by likely effect, based on past experience—and I can tell you from past experience that a comment like "car users are always trying to kill you" is guaranteed to land as inflammatory with a lot of readers. Keep in mind that when you post here, you're broadcasting to thousands of people. Even if most read your intent correctly, that still leaves a lot of people who won't. Therefore the burden is on you to disambiguate your intent. Past explanations in case helpful: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=burden%20disambiguate%20by%3Adang&sort=byDate&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que....