Originally Posted by
McBTC
It must be a great burden to bear to know that recognizing the God-given rights of the many to individual liberty and the personal freedom to make decisions in the best interest of themselves and their families, may result in choices that fall outside the Utopian beliefs of the few who know how the rest of us should live.
I would love to get into a discussion about God and the devil here in response to this, but you know it would be frowned upon and you are provoking it. As for liberty, please read The Spirit of Liberty Speech by Judge Learned Hand where liberty is clearly distinguished from unbridled freedom as including responsibility. The automotive economy and infrastructure have evolved beyond responsibility toward pedestrians and cyclists. There has always been a certain bullying attitude toward those who resist the automotive paradigm, first its influx and later/now its ubiquity. Yes, we should have liberty, and no we can't expect utopia, but CAN expect that the automotive culture be limited to a level that doesn't inconvenience the choice to LCF. The fact is that it was disrespectful to liberty to ever have developed the automotive culture and sprawl beyond the common ability to function societally without driving. The moment driving became a social-economic pressure, liberty should have taken precedence and steps taken to prevent people's lives from becoming structured around the ability to drive in all the ways that have become common.