Originally Posted by
travelinhobo
The passivity of so many of you is absurd. What's the point of demanding our equality on the road if you're going to wuss out when drivers blatantly endanger your life? I've called enough drivers on their idiocy to know that most of them won't touch me. And should the time comes that one of them does, then so be it. I wasn't born with the fear factor and I won't die having people say I didn't walk the talk.
I agree with you that we should stand up for ourselves, and certainly not fear motorists. But the point many here are making is not that they fear sustaining an injury in a conflict, (I know I don't) it's that the end result of initiating a confrontation is likely to be of no benefit to anyone.