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Why is Riding a Bicycle in the City Turning Into a Culture War
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this post was submitted on 05 Jun 2024
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Consider this dichotomy:
https://jalopnik.com/study-finds-cyclists-are-better-people-than-drivers-1850964103
https://www.sciencefocus.com/news/more-than-half-of-motorists-view-cyclists-as-subhuman-cockroaches
i have never been called a cockroach. i have been called gay a lot though by truck drivers.
did they honk your horn?
Ah yes, the “science” of determining which population is composed of better people.
Read the fucking article. It defines specifically what it means (civic engagement/interest in the common good, basically), and it is measurable.
It’s not that there are measurable things about people that I doubt. What I doubt is that you can scientifically demonstrate that someone is better than someone else.
Humanities students don’t read any more and it shows