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as a longtime lover of both cars and bicycles seeing this sort of nonsense bums me out. and believe me, i've been run off the road and sworn and and nearly killed plenty of times on my bike. and i'm well aware of the many ills of car-based development, planning, and infrastructure. i used to teach that stuff to graduate students at one of the largest public universities in the country. but blaming cars as causing some sort of mental derangement or pointing to the acts of individuals affected by whatever it is you're describing misses the point entirely and is just one of a million examples of the contemporary habit of pointing out legitimate social problems and blaming some other side as the source of the problem. these are policy problems, not a problem of motorists being somehow bad or insane or the enemy. changes in policy and infrastructure change behavior. problems like this--whether of cyclist/pedestrian vulnerability or class inequality--require collective solutions and that requires recognizing that we are all in this together, even when we don't share definitions of the the same solutions, or goals, or even problems. it's important to recognize that everyone is just trying to live and we all have our own personal goals interests we pursue. we have to figure out how to make reasonable tradeoffs in crafting a world for all of us, not delegitimize people who have other interests.