Date: Wed, 02 Jul 2003 22:33:41 +0200 From: Xenna <xennarnopsamo.com> Subject: Re: 1995 900S advice
Fred W. wrote: > You should be sorry. I am not in marketing, and I'm not attempting to sell > you, or anyone else, anything. Your reply was rude, baseless and wasn't > even very well thought out. I hope you can come up with something a bit > more intelligent to contribute if you will be hanging around here in the > future. It wasn't meant as a personal attack, but lines like 'How much is your health worth?' are abused too much. I think the safety preoccupation of western civilisations is going too far. Saving lives has become the most important thing and seems to withstand any counterarguments. You can see this mentality in many fields like ant-smoking & drugs policies. Drugs are dangerous so they should be outlawed, no matter that the outlawing itself destroys more lives and liberties than the drugs ever did. Personal responsibility is atrofying as more and more things that should be free choice are made compulsory in the name of safety. People seem to be building a safe cushioned society where the most important question is that of safety. IMO this is the wrong direction. I'm sure wearing a helmet in a car would save lives, so let's wait for that to become law. As things get safer and safer for some reason people seem to be feeling more and more unsafe. How much is your health worth? Well, all the money in the world I guess. How can one really answer such a question? How appropriate a question is it to ask in choosing between two cars? And how surprising is it that someone looks beyond that statement and sees what it really represents and finds it resentful? X. (who bought his 9-3 partly because it was such a nice safe car)
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