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   Wise TibetanMonkey, Most Humble Phi to Ashton Crusher   
   Re: Myth: The motor car is the ultimate    
   09 Dec 14 18:36:12   
   
   From: thetibetanmonkey@gmail.com   
      
   On Tuesday, December 9, 2014 8:40:43 PM UTC-5, Ashton Crusher wrote:   
   > On Mon, 8 Dec 2014 00:46:35 -0800 (PST), "Wise TibetanMonkey, Most   
   > Humble Philosopher"  wrote:   
   >   
   > >On Sunday, December 7, 2014 2:56:05 PM UTC-5, Ashton Crusher wrote:   
   > >> In every country in the world, the first thing people want as they   
   > >> come up out of the mud is personal transportation.   Even in China,   
   > >> with cities far bigger then most, and with plenty of public   
   > >> transportation of one sort or another, the people still hunger for   
   > >> personal transportation.   
   > >   
   > >Right, and because of it they are choking in pollution and the world is   
   looking into the abyss of irreversible climate change.   
   > >   
   > >And they are sitting in endless traffic jams as well, so they are not   
   getting fast anywhere.   
   >   
   >   
   > So?  What's it to you?  It's their choice, why do you keep suggesting   
   > you know better how they should live then they do?  Maybe you'd like   
   > to tell us all what size house we should be allowed and what kind of   
   > food we should be allowed to eat.  Clearly they like cars, with all   
   > the attendant problems, over mass transit. Even in a   
   > quasi-dictatorship you see this over and over.  People want the   
   > freedom of a car.  It's only in a few places that have become rats   
   > nests, like NYC where many are forced to give up that dream and SETTLE   
   > for impersonal transportation.  Even in NYC people who can will pay   
   > ungodly sums of money to have a car.   
      
   Even in the land of the free the size of the guns are limited.   
      
   For example, a bazooka is not OK. Even a machete may not be OK. Everything is   
   regulated.   
      
   Let me ask you something, can you import Renaults and Citroens into Canada?   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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