The heat is on... Thinking today that, honestly, cab drivers do give the police a bad name. Actually, I was first thinking that yesterday, to be completely honest. I find that it is simply plain filthy what I happen to notice going on. For example, some cab driver will "near-clip" you, and then when you flick the guy off, he is like "Hatred for Mushlims." Now, this is an all too common reality, again, so I observe. Secondly, my theory on that is bolstered by my ideas relating to the ability for people to commit vehicular homicide, which is facilitated not only by the size and power of the vehicles, but I am arguing, also, by the general fog of air pollution and the effect this has on persons' ability to judge situations accurately, to maintain calm and control their own emotions, and to have full coordination.
Don't get me wrong, I do feel bad for a person that strikes a bicycles and kills of paralyzes, or maims them, but, on the other hand, I don't feel bad for the part of human nature that allows this, which chalks such occasional "incidents" up to "necessary evil" etc. when, for all I know, it's actually the most unnecessary evil imaginable. Thirdly, I am extremely resistant, given the reality of what I observe on the ground having to do with cab-driver misconduct, and it's commonality, to the idea of enrolling Muslims in the police force... but what can you do? It's quite the debaucle isn't it. People will become citizens. We can see how they may be assimilated without fully meeting the requirements, of a population which self-identifies as such, for observing general codes of moral conduct, or "unspoken rules," which, again, may truly be all-important (and I am of the opinion that they are).
We have "freedom of religion" which is great, but let us not allow it to breed ignorance, or ignoring some extant thing, ie. what religions are. We don't have to claim we fully understand the religions, or the groups of believers. We don't have to Now, for example, look at the situation Catholics face; they simply can not ignore the priest-sexual-abuse scandal... at the very least, they must admit that a not-insignificant portion of the population of Catholics was not "all knowing" and somewhat impotent to stop such a horrible scandal as that has been. Similarly, the Muslim population, clearly, needs to be, not only cognizant,. but truly fully aware of what their brothers the terrorist are doing to everyone else, not just non-Muslims, ie. they need to understand they are being hurt, not helped by such actions of mass murder as the various bombings that we have seen, et. al.
Now, air pollution is much more a problem than people realize. That's another thing I have to assert. I'm not saying that a lot of people don't enjoy, wallowing in it, or, additionally, nor am I saying that anyone who enjoys life at all enjoys the havoc and filth and damage to person's physical health that air pollution will cause, really, in all but the slightest quantities.
Anyway, I do believe that really the fact that if I was struck and killed, or even murdered (we wouldn't be sure, now would we?... 'chances are that it's not murder' right?) by a cab driver... this person WOULD NEVER BE PUT TO DEATH... I think that's somewhat unfair. Does it mean they are not going to hit me if they'll be put to death... obviously not... we are told by suicide bombers that they'll still kill us. Does it mean if we eject cab drivers from our streets that I'll be safe then from anyone attacking me and killing me? Hell no, I do not I believe that! However, I do believe that their should be, really, fair punishment for misdeeds such as vehicular homicide or manslaughter. I don't believe in the justice system, necessarily, so I think it shouldn't be up to anyone to decide whether it was a homicide (purposeful) or an accident (manslaughter)... Hence, people should know... you are at fault... I know the counter-argument is that "if I am just bicycling poorly... then people are just doing what is necessary, for them, by driving... I am the asshole." I know that counter-argument well, but then What IF... I am only bicycling poorly because it's nearly impossible to bicycle because the air is so bad... Trust me, I am not worried about being hit by a meteorite while outside. Sure, it could happen, but I am not worried about that. I am worried about the pollution that I get from being outside, and Rob Ford will hate me for it, but I think a lot of that has to do with unnecessary vehicular use, plain and simple. Sure, I want to focus on all kinds of ways of reducing pollution, but that is simply an impossible hurdle... they car industry and its fruits.
