Originally Posted by
grolby
Maybe by "combat this," you mean only that "law abiders" should work extra-hard to abide by the laws, but that's a fairly tortured reading. First of all, you say that there's a "cycling subculture which promotes things like running red lights," which is a false statement. Or if it is true, it is at least as true that there is a driving subculture that promotes these things. Certainly speeding by drivers is far more prevalent than red light running by cyclists. Second of all, the implication of "making an effort to combat this" is strongly denouncing or otherwise going after cyclists that do break these laws.
Tortured reading? Thank you for the rather empty subjective literary assessment of my online forum post. Stick with your day job, I'm sure it pays you more than critiquing others' writing. If you are so qualified to falsify my claims with a simple retort which offers little to no substance, then by the same virtue your statements are equally as false. Your definition of "going after someone" is terribly askew if this definition includes the passive act of writing on an internet forum (perhaps Dateline could do a segment on "online cycling forums bullying"). Granted, then by the same token my definition of "combating" something is also off base, but then you see we are developing a scale and context here, which you seem to misinterpret or miss altogether. I'm sorry you are offended of my "going after" cyclists by making a written statement. Perhaps you have a vision that I am exacting physical revenge against law breaking cyclists a la Tonya Harding? That's just plain amusing.