[ExI] shweeb

Stathis Papaioannou stathisp at gmail.com
Thu Oct 14 08:34:28 UTC 2010


On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 2:50 AM, spike <spike66 at att.net> wrote:

> Ja, it isn't for everyone, but it really doesn't need to be.  Rather it
> needs to be for some, which reduces the load on the streets.  Mass transit
> isn't for everyone, for a very persistent reason: it doesn't help with the
> problem of many of us don't want to mix with us.  We humans are scary.  We
> have a tendency to insanity, violence, communicable diseases and so forth.
> We are dangerous to each other.  Our Detroits serve as our suits of armor,
> to protect and isolate us from each other.

And yet in the US you are twice as likely to die as a result of a car
accident as you are to be murdered:

http://www-fars.nhtsa.dot.gov/Main/index.aspx
http://www.disastercenter.com/crime/uscrime.htm


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Stathis Papaioannou




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