[*BCM*] dbl parked

[thom3 at aol.com]

If you ride through a red light, it's wrong via the law. To then say, why aren't the police checking on the dbl parked cars is just... well you make your own conclusion. 

Personally I think dbl parked cars are more of a traffic ill than bikes going through reds, but when you get busted, you're busted, it's all on you, not the guy down the road.

-----Original Message-----
From: John Hays <jjhays2 at gmail.com>
To: Boston CM <list at bostoncriticalmass.org>; Boston Critical Mass <list at bostoncriticalmass.org>
Sent: Thu, 6 Mar 2008 5:47 pm
Subject: Re: [*BCM*] dbl parked



I tend to agree that people trot out "two wrongs don't make a right" in 
ituations where it basically amounts to a non-sequitur, largely on the 
asis that it's relevance assumes something being contested (that some 
ction in question is in fact a wrong). I will say that it's not 
articularly clear to me that riding through an intersection under those 
ircumstances is, in any meaningful sense, a wrong. It may very well be 
hat it's _against the law_ to do that, but that's just another 
on-sequitur, since the fact that something is against the law is not 
vidence of it being wrong. I shudder to think how many people (even on 
his list) actually believe that "zee rules are zee rules" is a 
ufficient justification for the deliberate infliction of suffering upon 
r deprivation of material assets from a person.
- John

Jym Dyer wrote:
>>> 2 wrongs don't make a right.
>>>         
>> =v= Ain't it wonderful how this particular topic always
>> brings out fresh, invigorating new insights?
>>       
> And just what are your fresh insights?
>     

 =v= Here's a tip:  When you find yourself regurgitating the
 world's most obvious clichés for the umpteenth time, as if
 the person you're responding to is a blithering idiot, you
 are wasting your time (and the time of everyone else who
 might be wearing of a cliché-filled inbox).  Perhaps the
 person really is a blithering idiot, in which case your
 words are useless; but what's more likely is that you're
 not attempting to understand what the person is getting
 at, in which case your communication is pointless.
     <_Jym_>

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