Not sure if this belongs here or not but I thought it was relevant.
He died in a motorcycle accident that apparently wasn’t his fault. An SUV failed to yield and hit him.
He was a hell of a player. Crack the Skye remains one of my top 5 albums.
Not sure if this belongs here or not but I thought it was relevant.
He died in a motorcycle accident that apparently wasn’t his fault. An SUV failed to yield and hit him.
He was a hell of a player. Crack the Skye remains one of my top 5 albums.
You’re not wrong, but there’s a lot of victim blaming in this thread.
There’s a lot that can be done to improve things, and most of them don’t involve escalating to bigger and bigger vehicles so that the other guy gets killed instead of you.
Roads need to be designed for people, not cars.
it’s not victim blaming, more of a PSA. If you choose to ride a motorcycle you implicitly accept that stuff like this can happen.
That is victim-blaming. “Oh well these things happen, they didn’t protect themselves well enough” is exactly that.
this isn’t a situation where a person was living their life and targeted by a criminal because of what they wore or whatever. THAT would be victim blaming.
when you ride a motorcycle you accept it is dangerous and you are more likely to be killed. same as any other harmful activity like smoking cigarettes.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victim_blaming#Urban_planning_and_road_safety
Motorcyclists absolutely fall into that category.
motorcyclists absolutely do not fall into the same category as pedestriants and bicyclists.
Pedestrians and bicyclists should get preferential treatment since they are clean mode of transport, and relatively safe on their own. Pedestrians and bicyclists are not zooming around at the same speeds as cars.
If we were all to convert to walking or bicycling that would be great and very safe. If we were all to convert to motorcycles, they would still be very dangerous. There is no getting around the inherent danger in riding motorcycles.
The inherent danger of motorcycles yes. But that inherent danger does not come from cars.
[edit: this is side tracking from the original point which is that victim blaming does not refer exclusively to targets of criminal intent or whatever you were suggesting that it means.]