And would you say not having a bodyguard with me "is just asking" to be attacked? And not wearing body armour "is just asking" to be shot? And that roadside tree "is just asking" to be felled because it has no lights on it?
No. This self-loathing by some cyclists here is not sensible. I use rear lights when legally required (and they're legal, meeting the current RVLR - unlike most here?), but I know that nothing I can do can make me "be seen more easily". That's a daft idea: we're already not invisible just because we look like ordinary people. We're pretty easy to spot. For example, I'm big enough, ugly enough and moving in an attention-grabbing manner. If a motorist is looking properly, they will see me. It's the ones who either can't see properly (
42%) or that simply don't look that we need to address.
Trying to make all non-motorists use more lights more often distracts us from more effective actions, like pressing for regular proper eyetests as a condition of driving licences, or road design changes so that when the blind nobbers crash, they damage themselves and not bystanders or our neighbourhoods.