Is driving a right or a privilege?

Hattori Hanzo

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That's only true in cities. Not necessarily if you live in the woods in the middle of nowhere.
 

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I only need to drive into the office once or twice a month and I really fucking hate sitting in traffic at rush hour. A 40 minute journey takes 1 hour 20 minutes because of the crawl, crawl, crawl on boring motorway roads. And that's when there hasn't been an accident.

One thing I'm glad about is post Covid many employers have stuck with the hybrid model or gone fully remote. I couldn't go back to the daily grind now.
 

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Are we to presume also that most people are guilty of a crime until proven innocent?
We don't already?

Most people's lives are royally fucked even if found innocent. They're socially stained.
 

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Are we to presume also that most people are guilty of a crime until proven innocent?
Everyone is guilty of something.

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The trick is to live walking distance of anywhere you need to be. I live no more than a 30 minute walk from everywhere I go on a regular basis and I can rent a car if I'm going out of town.

It's pretty goddamn nice not having to sit around in traffic every day. I haven't a clue how people who drive everywhere live. I imagine horribly. :keke:
I'm a lifelong pedestrian. Never drove a mile out of my life. Plan my entire schedule around public transportation: work, play, shopping. Not easy sometimes but paying $64 for a monthly pass is cheaper than gas, insurance, repairs, etc.
 

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I'm a lifelong pedestrian. Never drove a mile out of my life. Plan my entire schedule around public transportation: work, play, shopping. Not easy sometimes but paying $64 for a monthly pass is cheaper than gas, insurance, repairs, etc.

Yeah definitely cheaper. Less stressful too. I've noticed after not owning a car the last five years I don't feel like I'm in as much of a rush and just more calm in general. Being behind the wheel while stuck in traffic everyday is nerve-wracking even if we don't realize it.
 

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I'm a lifelong pedestrian. Never drove a mile out of my life. Plan my entire schedule around public transportation: work, play, shopping. Not easy sometimes but paying $64 for a monthly pass is cheaper than gas, insurance, repairs, etc.
can you describe what the bus system is like where you live?
 

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In the US it is a privilege, just like everything else not explicitly called out in the Constitution or Bill of Rights.
 
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Everything in this life is a goddamn privilege because nothing in life is guaranteed.
 

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That said, have scientists ever made predictions as to when gasoline will run out?
 

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In the US it is a privilege, just like everything else not explicitly called out in the Constitution or Bill of Rights.

Oof. The Constitution does not grant rights. The danger of enumeration.

That said, have scientists ever made predictions as to when gasoline will run out?

I think the prediction has been "Current year + 10" for the last 50 years.
 
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