• HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml
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    Freedom is not being able to drive anywhere. Freedom is being able to go anywhere with just your own body without a giant metal cage around it.

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      And let’s not forget: you can’t use the giant metal cage unless you have a plethora of details registered with the government and associated with the cage! And you’re legally required to have a contract with a private company to insure the cage.

      Freedom. Bah.

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        A contract they will try not to honor at every turn at that and if they do for the least amount possible.

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      and even if we use a spoon to remove the part of our brains that know cars suck, surely no one actually wants to drive everywhere, surely a sane person only wants to drive in certain places?

      no one fucking drives from norway to china, what people drive is from their house in the boonies to oslo airport, then from seoul airport they get a rental car and drive around the south korean countryside or whatever.

      I hate cars and yet i think they genuinely have a place, however that place is in rural garages and as nationalized carshare systems. There are places that can only reasonably be reached by car, and that is the only place where cars should exist.