Comment on Car crashes have killed and seriously injured roughly the same number of people as shootings in Chicago this year. Only one of these things is treated as a safety crisis in the media

• SwingingTheLamp@midwest.social ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Putting the shoe on and loudly announcing that it fits?

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  • Nangijala@feddit.dk ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Yeah, I think you are. Good that you see it yourself.

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    • SwingingTheLamp@midwest.social ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Of course, I drive (I kind of have to because of the way our landscape is designed to mandate it), so I have to include myself in this. It’s well-established by psychological research that drivers have very little empathy for other drivers, but especially little empathy for bicyclists and pedestrians, viewing them as less-than-human annoyances. Add in that driving in a city requires that one subject other people to the noise, the pollution, the danger, and the arrogation of space by one’s vehicle, and you pretty much have to suppress any empathy for the people who live there, otherwise it’d be unbearable to do. That lack of empathy is textbook sociopathy, induced by the activity of driving. It just happens to be widely normalized, but we still see posts even here on Lemmy from new drivers who are struggling to suppress those thoughts.

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