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America's love with cars is founded on fear and selfishness (poptalk.scrubbles.tech)

submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech to c/unpopularopinion@lemmy.world

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Probably not too unpopular here.

Standing waiting for the bus in my city with decent transit and I have 2 trucks rev their engines loudly past me, another one letting just clouds of pollution, watching people driving who aren't paying attention and several people blowing cutting last second through a light. All in just 3 minutes by a small corner with light traffic.

Made me think how cars are inherently selfish. People don't want to be around others (the fear aspect), so they drive their own bubble around. In addition to that, some go out of their way to make their cars even worse to people outside of them.

No wonder we can't move away from them. They are a definition of our own culture

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[–] MrJameGumb@lemmy.world 0 points 8 months ago (2 children)

People don't want to be around others (the fear aspect), so they drive their own bubble around. In addition to that, some go out of their way to make their cars even worse to people outside of them.

That seems pretty personal to me...

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 6 points 8 months ago (1 children)

And yet, I was somehow able to not take it personally despite my having similar reasons for needing a car as you.

[–] MrJameGumb@lemmy.world -2 points 8 months ago

I'm happy for you 👏

[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

If you're taking that personally then I would really look inwards, and ask yourself why you took that as a personal insult.

[–] MrJameGumb@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Sure, I'll get right on that 😉

[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech -5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I mean now I'll say you're being selfish for not even trying to understand the point I'm trying to make.

[–] MrJameGumb@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago

Dude... Your post explicitly stated that all car owners are selfish people who only care about maintaining their personal "bubble", and according to your own words this was based entirely on two trucks that drove past you at a bus stop. Perhaps I would have a better understanding of what you meant if you actually said what you meant instead of a blanket statement condemning every car owner in existence as a selfish asshole...

I rarely drive my car. I walk to the stores near me whenever that is an option.

You are the one who posted a personal attack and then immediately started backpedaling