Old 04-19-14 | 12:51 AM
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Originally Posted by JoeyBike
If you choose to swim with sharks, and a shark eats you, is it the shark's fault? No...he is just being a shark and doing what sharks do.

If I choose to ride my bike around a $h!t-ton of drunk drivers (50% estimated in my city at any given moment) and one of them steam-rolls me, yes, I shoulder all of the blame in my mind. I know - and understand - the danger, yet I am engaging in the activity anyway. I can't get the drunks to stop driving - that is totally beyond my control. All I can do is choose a vehicle that can withstand a collision...or not.

Get it? Learn to take responsibility for your choices in life and stop blaming the sharks for being sharks.
That's nothing but ignorant nonsense. It's equivalent to a woman that was molested apologizing for wearing a pretty skirt. If a drunk idiot hits a cyclist that is otherwise riding safely and sanely there is no reason for the cyclist to blame himself in any fashion. Blaming the victim is unacceptable. Learn to place the blame where it belongs, on the perpetrator, not the victim. While cyclists often make bad decisions in traffic, that isn't the point here. A pedestrian isn't at fault for walking on a sidewalk near a bar where a drunk might veer off the street. A cyclist is not to blame in any fashion for riding responsibly on a road in a reasonable fashion. There are many potential scenarios where one might fault a cyclist but drunk drivers, texting drivers and other such situations where drivers hit cyclists are not the fault of the cyclist, period, and to argue that the cyclist is at fault takes a big leap into stupid.
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