Prez wrote on Feb 10, 2024, 17:08:
My opinion remains unchanged: It's still not anyone's place to tell someone else what they 'need'. It's pretty arrogant to take that right.
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I believe you have the right to live how you choose. If it's legal, I mind my business.
You want to go there? Ok, let's go there.
A SUV is not a need unless there is a real life practical need for it. If you don't have a real life practical need, it's a DESIRE.
Unless you live in the boonies ( or have a very rare and specific need for a SUV's capabilities above and beyond what a sedan can do ) you really don't NEED a SUV, you just DESIRE it. A desire is a PRIVILEGE, not a right.
And when someone's desire, someone's privilege, results in someone else's avoidable death or a lifelong handicap instead of minor wounds, that's where I draw the line. You don't have a right to put someone else's life in danger because of a selfish desire.
Legality doesn't mean morality. Slavery was once legal ( some can argue it still is in an "evolved" form ), did that make it moral? Would I "mind my business" about slavery? Fuck no. That's why I loathe prison systems in countries where it's legal to exploit the inmates for labour as an example among many others.
In a nutshell, please stop mistaking "need" and "desire" as well as "legal" and "moral".
That being said, if only the "nose" of those SUVs was lowered to the same height as a sedan, it wouldn't even be an issue. Very few SUVs do have a lowered nose and they are mostly sold in Europe where there is regulation regarding that issue. Lower all SUVs noses and I couldn't care less even if 100% of all vehicles sold were SUVs as long as the casualties drop back down to sedan levels.As a side note, the same problem has been noted about pickup trucks, older pickups had a lower nose, newer pickups higher nose also cause the same issue as SUVs higher nose. Regulation ( or the manufacturers collectively putting their "man pants" on and solving that problem ) that solves that issue would also be welcome by me.
This comment was edited on Feb 13, 2024, 19:58.