I'm not concerned about any impact these jokels have on actual environment. Airtravel out-trumfs them easily, and it's just one of many. "Solution" is not within our scope.
I'm just pissed off at their entitlement. That they think "fun" is a human right. Life and existence, and a reasonable comfort is a human right. Doing whatever you want, when you want it, cuz its fun, is not a human right.
That argument is used in this country by the right all the time in regards to drugs, sex that they find objectionable and a host of other things they don't like so I am not a big fan of it. Reasonable comfort is very subjective who decides what that is? I don't want to live someplace where all aspects of my life are regulated to provide me with someone else's idea of reasonable comfort.
I question that after seeing Icequeen's video. Regardless of their argument, that driver created a hazard by modifying a vehicle to impair the visibility of others. I also think that, by purposely shooting sooty exhaust at bicyclists, the driver committed assault.
Agreed.
Also, the fact is, we live in a world with other people. We can't have freedom without responsibility. We just can't. if we don't mature the fuck up thats when governments and other power mongers step in claiming they can "handle" our shit while we just live blissfully unaware of how our "freedom" is killing and oppressing thousands of other people, not to mention damaging the environment, food, water, and thus our health.
If we want the freedom to drink from a stream, we can't pollute the fuck out of it. We also can't throw our shit in it and deprive the folks downstream from drinking freely as well. Same thing applies to the way we used shared air, shared ecosystems, shared oceans, and shared power sources. We can't go around pissing on everyone else because we WANT to.
If we do, well thats why govt's get powerful. Because people are too lazy/selfish to take care of themselves they need a fcking politician to make everything better.