Date:         Sat, 24 Sep 2005 22:34:43 -0500
Reply-To:     Jim Felder <felder@KNOLOGY.NET>
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From:         Jim Felder <felder@KNOLOGY.NET>
Subject:      Re: Diesel powered vanagons - Driving Slow
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>
> If someone couldn't care less that he's holding someone else up, you
> say it's the held-up person's fault that he's annoyed?

It's one thing to be annoyed, another thing to kill somebody over it.
The slow driver doesn't cause the road rage, the reaction to the slow
driver causes the road rage. I don't like it either, but I'm not going
shoot at somebody over it. And if I did, I would be the cause of the
shooting, not the slow driver.


>  I'm not
> advocating violence at all, note, but annoyance is inevitable. I feel
> it myself when held up by some arrogant character who drives a car
> that could eat mine but insists on crawling along, mindlessly
> swallowing the government line that SPEED KILLS.
>
> There are all grades of road irritability, from mild to wild. I get
> pissed-off at slowpokes, but violence is the province of scumbags.
>
>

That was my point...

Jim