Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2002 10:14:24 +0100
Reply-To: Robert Steven Fish <fish@SALZBURG.CO.AT>
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From: Robert Steven Fish <fish@SALZBURG.CO.AT>
Subject: Re: Thanks RE: Photo ticket at stop lights
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You do not have to apologize for stating your opinion... it's all good.
There will always be folks who disagree with your opinions though (as you
obviously disagree with mine... also all good).
While I am not a historian, I have to doubt that anything 200 some odd years
old is the longest running anything in the world. Cologne celebrated their
2000th birthday about 10 years ago, and there are many cities worldwide
which have histories in the thousands of years.
Regarding the crime rates and highschool shootings.... if one has, for
example 1 million brutal murders a year, and that rate drops 1% a year for
20 years... then you still have a lot of innocent dead people... right? And
if you have ANY school shootings, at all, then that, quite frankly, is one
school shooting too many. I admit, that the brutality and violent crime is
indeed infecting European countries.... I personally feel that it has a lot
to do with American media, culture, and entertainment.... but that is my
opinion, and there are many other factors mixed in to this complex topic. We
will not solve this world problem on the Vanagon list.
Generalizations are most often subjective and innacurate (there, I just made
a generalization) but from my own 20+ years of driving, it is my opinion
that driving in the many areas in America that I have driven can be more
stressful, than in the many areas I have driven in in Europe.
Bottom line is, it probably does not help much to make comparisons in an
attempt to determine which one is "better"... but comparisons can perhaps
help, when people are open-minded, in order to illuminate that there is a
diversity of ideas, systems and actions, outside ones own limited (by
necessity, as we cannnot all be everywhere at once) field of view and
perspective.
We live and learn... hopefully we evolve, and become better... and then
somehow, the entire world becomes better.
RSF
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