Comment on What’s driving Cycling Mikey, Britain’s most hated cyclist?

• Arrakis@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  It’s entirely about determining when you are, or not, driving. That’s why the course went to the House of Lords for a determination. This precedent establishes that “driving” can include when you’ve stopped and gotten out of the car, assuming that you intend to continue your journey

  That’s not what the House decided at all. If you’re going to misquote and misconstrue law and disregard the actual decision points there isn’t really much merit for anyone else to discuss it with you. Like I said before, maybe you should actually read the case law and decisions lest people think you’re deliberately perpetuating falsehoods and not simply missundertanding.

  See my previous comment: are you going to actually answer my question? Whether or not you think my statements are unreliable doesn’t matter.

  You didn’t ask me a question? I’ve read through all your replies to me and none contain a question, are you confusing me with another commenter maybe?

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  • Blake@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Happy to restate the question:

    Is using a handheld phone while stopped and stuck in traffic more dangerous than using a phone handsfree while driving at 60 miles an hour?

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    • Arrakis@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      You never asked me that question, and it’s nothing to do with what I was talking about, soooo…

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      • Blake@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        And now you’re running off, because you know fine well what the answer is and what that entails.

        Instead of admitting that you’re wrong and reconsidering your perspective, you’re just hiding in deeper and deeper levels of denial to protect your ego.

        Cognitive dissonance is uncomfortable, but the only lasting resolution is to reject your beliefs that do not stand up to scrutiny.

        It’s easier in the short term to take the path which preserves your ego, but you’ll always be wrong, and it gets harder and harder to deny reality.

        Every time you reject the truth it gets harder and harder for you to admit that you were wrong all along.

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