Parents are charged after their son, 7, is struck dead in a car accident
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Gastonia, N.C., police charged the parents with involuntary manslaughter charges after allowing the victim and his brother to walk home alone from a nearby grocery store.
  • sthetic@lemmy.ca
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    6 hours ago

    I don’t see it as a cage at all.

    I know my comment was long, but you haven’t answered:

    • Why you think that the same people who advocate for services within 15 minutes also advocate for confining people within a certain zone as part of that goal - have they ever said so? Why would they want to do so anyway? What do they get out of it?
    • Why you think that traffic calming is a slippery slope to confining vehicles, or all modes of transport, within a certain zone, instead of just trying to balance the ease of access between vehicles and bikes, scooters, skateboards, buses, pedestrians, etc.

    If you want to believe in a conspiracy, why not look at the ways in which the auto industry has suppressed other modes of transport, from inventing the term “jaywalking” to suppressing electric trams to building giant highways through poor neighbourhoods?

    • Nanook@friendica.eskimo.comBanned from community
      1·
      6 hours ago

      @sthetic Answer 1) Because I think the latter is their goal, and offering convenience is just a way to try to achieve it.

      1. Experience. I’m 66 years old, I’ve watched the slippery slope in action take away too many of my freedoms already, I don’t care to give up more.
      • sthetic@lemmy.ca
        1·
        6 hours ago

        Thanks for answering.

        “I don’t have any evidence, I just think so, and I’m old” is enough for me to understand your mentality.