JonR

I've delayed responding to this question for fear of offending somebody, but I guess the time has come.

(I couldn't respond to the poll because none of the answers reflected my feeling about the subject.)

To me, a warning flag is similar to a bike path: serving to put down and marginalize the cyclist. If sources of danger on the road need to be flagged, why don't motor cars have to display orange or red flags?

Also, the notion of having to display a special "badge" is too reminiscent to me of the way the Nazis treated minority groups, making them wear colored patches of cloth--and the same thing is being done in Afghanistan today, to the Hindu minority there.

This may seem a far-fetched objection, but I invite you to think about it for a moment.