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ideonek@piefed.social 3 weeks agoTo be clear, your position is that "stupid person walked into the traffic" and "it's that person fault" are two different things? You grasp the tiniest of straws. (You accused me of ad hominem, look up motte-and-bailey)
But even beside that you miss the point entirely. What I tried yo explain you there was that there was no "into the traffic" there. People didn't "wonder" on the streets. They were just there. Like today they are on the sidewalk. People were the rule cars were the exception. If electric scooter run into the pedestrian, you don't defoult into "the pedestrian was likely ignorant". Imagine scooter manufacturers start to call people involved in the accidents like this something like "loonies" or "zombies" until the legislation that people can walk only directly beside the curb is passed... And 10 years from that somene like you will argue "but skipping across the entire sidewalk is ignorant and careless. Term loonie sounds accurate to me".
Ulrich@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
Absolutely not. Those are enormous straws…
That is not what you said. What you said was, and I quote “You think: people who wonder on the street are to blame if they are hit.”
If people are not “wandering into the street” then they are not “jaywalking”, are they?
It doesn’t matter which one is which. The one that is “jay” is the one doing so without any regard for the rules, endangering themselves and other road users.
That would be a completely different use of the word, since neither of these words mean “someone who operates scooters carelessly and without regard for the rules”, as jaywalking does.
ideonek@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
We are clearly not moving toward convincing eachother to anything even a bit, so let's stop here. Have a great day, Ulrich.
Ulrich@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
You will never convince anyone by gaslighting them into believing you didn’t say things you did (especially where it’s clearly documented) and continually pursuing strawman arguments.
ideonek@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
Hmm? Now I'm honestly confused. What is the thing I said that I claim I didn't say?