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I'm getting a lot of 'but my car is more convenient' arguments lately, and I'm struggling to convey why that doesn't make sense.

Specifically how to explain to people that: Sure, if you are able to drive, and can afford it, and your city is designed to, and subsidizes making it easy to drive and park, then it's convenient. But if everyone does it then it quickly becomes a tragedy of the commons situation.

I thought of one analogy that is: It would be 'more convenient' if I just threw my trash out the window, but if we all started doing that then we'd quickly end up in a mess.

But I feel like that doesn't quite get at the essence of it. Any other ideas?

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[–] veganpizza69@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago
[–] Shadywack@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

Stroads and shitty civil engineering for "muh freedom". Fucking stroads. I hate almost anywhere I travel in the US because it's all laid out so I almost HAVE to drive anywhere.

[–] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 2 points 7 months ago

Taking your car would be even more convenient if you also had convenient alternatives to driving, to spread out the traffic load.

[–] lemmylommy@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago
[–] max@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 6 months ago

In my country I think it's $40 and that's it lol

[–] IsThisAnAI@lemmy.world -5 points 7 months ago

Because my car is convenient. Nothing you will do in our life time is going to magically convince half the country to invest trillions to make public transport more accessible. So it's about harm reduction at that point. You will never convenience anyone with these tertiary root cause shit.

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