Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder9.news.weretis.net!news.quux.org!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Catrike Ryder Newsgroups: rec.bicycles.tech Subject: Re: Most significant advance in bike technology for speed? Date: Sun, 02 Feb 2025 17:11:09 -0500 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 25 Message-ID: References: <3l98pj1sdf0rg51lv03l2vgf36guvquj4s@4ax.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Sun, 02 Feb 2025 23:11:13 +0100 (CET) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="a85ee22dd62c6eb3fe17a7f71051228a"; logging-data="945494"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18wneSKJ8jNaPl4xdzso5EhAyqxsEBld30=" User-Agent: ForteAgent/8.00.32.1272 Cancel-Lock: sha1:17hRsWYK5XOYFS5Si+tktUz0F14= Bytes: 2457 >2729 Center Rd, Youngstown, OH 44514 On Sun, 2 Feb 2025 12:43:08 -0500, Frank Krygowski wrote: >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. I'd move too, if I was afraid of guns like you are. -- C'est bon Soloman