Originally Posted by
McBTC
Interestingly, the anti-car cult as it plays out in this sub-forum isn't even pro-bicycle... "LCF" is "Commuting" with attitude and it's the various attitudes the faithful of the LCF movement share – having nothing to do with cycling (compact urbanism with dense populations that are ruled in the European style of communism) – that give rise to various debates. The reason the debate dances on the edge of civility is the result of a clash of principles: many who participate on the bike forums who find cycling to be a liberating experience and like the idea of getting around by bike are principally opposed to the ideology underlying the LCF movement that opposes the ethic of individual liberty.
I think the pro-bicycle bit regarding LCF can be inferred based on the forum of which it is a part... even if not explicitly stated in every thread.
I rarely see anti-car sentiment being expressed here as an ethic opposed to individual liberties. More a lack of tolerance for pro-car, or car-neutral expression.
Where car-free is in the title of the subforum, I might necessarily expect anti-car rhetoric (and am never disappointed...
). However, arguing pro-car to the extent that some do comes across as trolling.