• Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      How the fuck would a blanket ban of VEHICLES be a great idea?? Follow up: which culture do you live in that apparently hates transport and also, what have you been smoking?

      • people_are_cute@lemmy.sdf.org
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        This is the most American shit I’ve read.

        What’s the worst that a vehicle ban could do, make you walk? What’s so wrong with sacrificing convenient mobility for 0.005 square miles in exchange of even a marginally cleaner and safer environment?

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          1 year ago

          A bicycle is a vehicle too. What’s wrong with biking?

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          If you read that story fully, allegedly you can get a strike if you’re on/in any vehicle on a holiday break.

          So if you take a flight to see extended family… STRIKE (or should you be walking across a continent/world?) If your parents want to take you to some cultural event next country over STRIKE. If you have a medical emergency and are driven in an ambulence STRIKE.

          While I wouldn’t put it past a stranger on the internet to exaggerate something, you defended that rule, and called the idea of not being fond of that rule “American shit”

          I can think of very few cultures or countries in the entire world where such a rule as OP described might be genuinely productive.

          Honestly, if anything it seems to encourage extreme isolationism. You want American shit, there you go :)