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Old 09-23-12 | 02:26 PM
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Originally Posted by CB HI
Cycling is safer than trying to cross a road as a pedestrian.

Your third verbal blunder - cycling is dangerous.
That there are more things more dangerous or that the danger posed by an activity is below the commonly accepted threshold of what constitutes unnecessary danger or exposure to risk does not preclude something from being itself dangerous. You are not very good at being a pedant.
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