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I got a similar reaction to idiotsincars. Some oblivious asshole driver would recklessly endanger everyone around them in a video.
Okay, sure, that's bad. Drivers should be held to a much higher standard of training, driving privileges should be easier to withdraw from repeat offenders, we should encourage dramatically less car-dependent infrastructure that requires everyone to have to drive to go anywhere or do anything, etc, etc, etc.
However the comments you see every day are out for fucking blood. Life in prison, death sentence, beatings, million dollar fines! Like, yo, chill out. Overreacting and demanding extremely harsh punishment is how America ended up with the largest prison population in the world. As a society there has to be a middle ground between doing nothing and the most extreme punishments imaginable. This is especially true if the ultimate goal is to discourage antisocial behavior, rather than just seek vengeance.
Yeah for sure. Another issue is quickly jumping to the worst conclusions. You see that one recently where the white nurse lady was exclaiming loudly for help because some teen guys (happened to be black) were seemingly refusing to give her a bike she wanted? The video cut made it look like she was a bad racist Karen - Reddit got the pitchforks out and she was borderline getting fired and more. Turned out, she had actually rented the city bike first after all (she had the receipts) and it was the teens trying to rip her offโฆ. Another Reddit jump of the gun by the hive mind. Crap has dangerous consequences for people.