this post was submitted on 12 Jul 2025
350 points (78.0% liked)

Fuck Cars

12813 readers
1330 users here now

A place to discuss problems of car centric infrastructure or how it hurts us all. Let's explore the bad world of Cars!

Rules

1. Be CivilYou may not agree on ideas, but please do not be needlessly rude or insulting to other people in this community.

2. No hate speechDon't discriminate or disparage people on the basis of sex, gender, race, ethnicity, nationality, religion, or sexuality.

3. Don't harass peopleDon't follow people you disagree with into multiple threads or into PMs to insult, disparage, or otherwise attack them. And certainly don't doxx any non-public figures.

4. Stay on topicThis community is about cars, their externalities in society, car-dependency, and solutions to these.

5. No repostsDo not repost content that has already been posted in this community.

Moderator discretion will be used to judge reports with regard to the above rules.

Posting Guidelines

In the absence of a flair system on lemmy yet, let’s try to make it easier to scan through posts by type in here by using tags:

Recommended communities:

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.dbzer0.com 71 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (38 children)

Sure. But you know they aren't as close as this makes it. One tool was meant to take life as the primary function. The other to get someplace.

Woman falls down stairs while carrying her baby, she killed him, accident. Woman throws her baby off the balcony, she killed him, murder. Both cases the baby was killed, both sad. But they are different.

[–] tate@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

If you kill someone with a gun and it was completely accidental, you're still likely going to do some time for it. Not so with a car.

[–] SpacetimeMachine@lemmy.world 6 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

Yea because a gun is literally designed as a weapon. If someone is wielding one and it "accidentally" goes off you were 100% being negligent in some way. With a car there are certainly situations where you can do everything as safely as possible but an accident still occurs.

[–] tate@lemmy.sdf.org 0 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

there are certainly situations where you can do everything as safely as possible but an accident still occurs.

Then it won't be your fault.

In (almost) every automobile "accident" someone was at fault. That person bears responsibility for whatever results from the "accident."

load more comments (35 replies)