Originally Posted by
rfomenko
"Surrender" is accepted. My logic is rather a simple one. I listen to the noise of vehicle tires & their engines when I ride. It is VERY important to me because while riding a bicycle I am not surrounded by the tons of reinforced steel and airbags. The basic instinct of self-preservation dictates that you have to use everything feasible to limit the risks instead of increasing them & wearing headphones does just that. That's why I feel sorry for people who use phony arguments in order to justify unjustifiable. And I feel sad for them after reading "another cyclist is down" articles in local papers or on this forum. But that's me because the Nature is neither happy or sad. It just the way it is.
So you are one of those nannies who believe the deaf an hearing impaired should be barred from operating vehicles. Good thing that even most clueless politicians have more common sense than you do...or at least a fear of the ADA lobby, so have not passed silly laws to support your silly theories. The phony arguments are all yours, pal...but if that is what you need to believe you are not inferior to the rest of the world, have at it.
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