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From: Frank Krygowski <frkrygow@gXXmail.com>
Newsgroups: rec.bicycles.tech
Subject: Re: Most significant advance in bike technology for speed?
Date: Sun, 2 Feb 2025 12:43:08 -0500
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On 2/1/2025 8:58 AM, AMuzi wrote:
> 
> People do make individual decisions based on their individual 
> evaluations of their individual circumstances, abilities etc. by their 
> own individual criteria.  And then they live or die by those decisions.
> 
> https://cwbchicago.com/2025/01/garbage-collector-shoots-2-armed-robbers- 
> outside-elementary-school-killing-1.html
> 
> In my personal opinion it is not morally superior do die while being 
> robbed. YMMV.

A parallel statement that might be made by other people about spiders, 
snakes, ghosts, enclosed spaces, and dozens of other phobias. Requiring 
a gun to ride on a quiet bike path where young mothers push kids in 
strollers is paranoid. And if I lived somewhere where I needed a gun to 
fend off armed robbers, I'd move.


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- Frank Krygowski