<WBR>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. <br>
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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.<br>
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-----Original Message-----<br>
From: John Hays <jjhays2@gmail.com><br>
To: Boston CM <list@bostoncriticalmass.org>; Boston Critical Mass <list@bostoncriticalmass.org><br>
Sent: Thu, 6 Mar 2008 5:47 pm<br>
Subject: Re: [*BCM*] dbl parked<br>
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<div id=AOLMsgPart_0_1f8a5d5b-a1c9-4118-b50c-f2ba9f5e5e47 style="FONT-SIZE: 12px; MARGIN: 0px; COLOR: #000; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Sans-Serif; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #fff"><PRE style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt"><TT>I tend to agree that people trot out "two wrongs don't make a right" in
situations where it basically amounts to a non-sequitur, largely on the
basis that it's relevance assumes something being contested (that some
action in question is in fact a wrong). I will say that it's not
particularly clear to me that riding through an intersection under those
circumstances is, in any meaningful sense, a wrong. It may very well be
that it's _against the law_ to do that, but that's just another
non-sequitur, since the fact that something is against the law is not
evidence of it being wrong. I shudder to think how many people (even on
this list) actually believe that "zee rules are zee rules" is a
sufficient justification for the deliberate infliction of suffering upon
or 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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