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If every time you walked down the street the people wearing blue shirts spat in your face or sucker punched you a third of the time as they walked past, it woul

If every time you walked down the street the people wearing blue shirts spat in your face or sucker punched you a third of the time as they walked past, it wouldn't take long before you had a strong reaction to seeing someone in a blue shirt walking your way, even if they personally did nothing to you. That's human nature. No one should be throwing things or trying to hurt anyone, but it absolutely is past and repeated negative experiences with cyclists acting irresponsibly that make drivers resent them, just like careless assholes in cars can make cyclists resent drivers.

isthatafact 3y ago
Your equating of interacting with a cyclist while in a car to being sucker punched and spat upon is a clue that your premise is irrational. Being delayed by a few seconds generally only results in aggression from car drivers if and only if the cause is a cyclist. My belief is that the worst offending car drivers are simply psychopath bullies who know they can safely abuse, threaten, harass, assault, etc. those pansy spandex wearing cyclists. They do it because they enjoy it. Some people are simply not fit to be a part of society.
- autoexec 3y ago
  > Your equating of interacting with a cyclist while in a car to being sucker punched and spat upon is a clue that your premise is irrational. I never equated the two. I used them as an example of how people come to blame all members of a certain class for the consistently harmful actions of a few members of that class. It's not fair, but it's common. > Being delayed by a few seconds generally only results in aggression from car drivers if and only if the cause is a cyclist. "Being delayed by a few seconds" is annoying for everyone no matter what the cause. That's not really the problem drivers have with cyclists though. It's having to slam on their breaks because someone on a bike ran a red light or having to swerve to avoid a cyclist who suddenly and illegally darted into their lane that makes drivers upset. > My belief is that the worst offending car drivers are simply psychopath bullies Maybe a number of the most extreme offenders actually are? The majority of people who have problems with cyclists on the road however are certainly not. I'd agree that people abusing cyclists for "fun" really are a problem and that they shouldn't be on the road.

isthatafact 3y ago

Your equating of interacting with a cyclist while in a car to being sucker punched and spat upon is a clue that your premise is irrational. Being delayed by a few seconds generally only results in aggression from car drivers if and only if the cause is a cyclist. My belief is that the worst offending car drivers are simply psychopath bullies who know they can safely abuse, threaten, harass, assault, etc. those pansy spandex wearing cyclists. They do it because they enjoy it. Some people are simply not fit to be a part of society.

autoexec 3y ago
> Your equating of interacting with a cyclist while in a car to being sucker punched and spat upon is a clue that your premise is irrational. I never equated the two. I used them as an example of how people come to blame all members of a certain class for the consistently harmful actions of a few members of that class. It's not fair, but it's common. > Being delayed by a few seconds generally only results in aggression from car drivers if and only if the cause is a cyclist. "Being delayed by a few seconds" is annoying for everyone no matter what the cause. That's not really the problem drivers have with cyclists though. It's having to slam on their breaks because someone on a bike ran a red light or having to swerve to avoid a cyclist who suddenly and illegally darted into their lane that makes drivers upset. > My belief is that the worst offending car drivers are simply psychopath bullies Maybe a number of the most extreme offenders actually are? The majority of people who have problems with cyclists on the road however are certainly not. I'd agree that people abusing cyclists for "fun" really are a problem and that they shouldn't be on the road.