cycleruk
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To say there is no option but to drive implies that owning a car is a basic human right.
It isn't. Let's not go down that route of adding car ownership to the Relative Poverty equation please.
these are both very good points but i would like to add. unfortunetly someone all ready hasJust think about what you are saying there.
A car is never ever essential for basic human existence-sure, it is a nice thing to have, and for some it might be an easier alternative to getting around another way.
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Nothing you, me or any one else is going to change the fact as long as humans live on this planet there will be people who do things like this.What i noticed when i was car free is that people in cars etc seem to think that people on pushbikes are poor, this really is not the case and i did get pissed of when people said this to me,
We are very lucky in this country for you to even think in the way you do, to have the thought that a car should be a "need", not a want".
I feel this is maybe making me sound ungrateful for what i have, that i am most definitely not.
i dont consider my self lucky, i consider my self blessed. i consider my self blessed that i have a roof over my head, i consider myself blessed i have a job so i can buy things that i want not need, that i have a loving family and good health. every christmas i dont celebrate with commen things like christmas cards, christmas lights or dvd players but celebrate the true once in a life time presents.... family friends, a home, my health i pray that one day the people less beter off then me will one day be in the same postion im in (i donate to charities where i can and i even have direct debts as well) my only wish is that every one would get a long, that there are no wars etc but as long as some of the ungrateful human being sons of guns are out there, there will alway be people out there that think about the now and them selfs.
Are pushbikes, cars, van, lorrys, dvd players, computers and some many more that i would take up the hole page typing the list! critical to the human exsistance (last time i looked people were born with two legs and arms etc and not with a pushbike between there legs as the mother gave birth!)NO there not, do i consider it my right to own anything above, NO I DONT. everything in the world to day was designed to make our life easier, was design as a tool to make thinges quicker and easier for us
I respect people who are car free or not i dont put them into equations or lists because we are all human. I AM NOT PERFECT i dont do things right every time i use hindsight when the stupid idiot that i am maybe i should of used my brain at the time, i do things different that maybe is not the right way to do it but that is the kind of twat i am sometimes, i dont have a car because i think i have the right or because my life depends on it i use a car because i think that is the right thing to do at the time im doing it