Considering it is literally the statement about The Golden Rule, which really is embraced by many many folks, and not at all from a religious inclination (I believe it’s often at the core of the atheist perspective as well?) maybe, I dunno, you could actually acknowledge the point of the post, and not just dismissing it entirely because of the cultural milieu of the reference…
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@M_M
You can do better than posting videos of such petty events.
You sound disappointed.
Bingo!
Considering it is literally the statement about The Golden Rule, which really is embraced by many many folks, and not at all from a religious inclination (I believe it’s often at the core of the atheist perspective as well?) maybe, I dunno, you could actually acknowledge the point of the post, and not just dismissing it entirely because of the cultural milieu of the reference…
Wikipedia: The Golden Rule says:
One should treat others as one would like others to treat oneself
People giving me the finger and people intentionally dropping my phone are not ways I want to be treated.
maybe, I dunno, you could actually acknowledge the point of the post
If the point of the post is that people suck at keeping the Golden Rule, them I must suck too for wanting to give the finger to @frauenfelder. 
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Considering it is literally the statement about The Golden Rule, which really is embraced by many many folks, and not at all from a religious inclination [/quote]
Had the post been a statement such as you describe and not simply a Bible verse number which needs knowledge of a specific religious text to decode, your statement would make sense.
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maybe, I dunno, you could actually acknowledge the point of the post, and not just dismissing it entirely because of the cultural milieu of the reference… [/quote]
I was really dismissive of it for the gratuitous “biatch” at the end, but I rose above that and didn’t respond in kind. For you, I will point out that specific religions are not actually cultural milieux, though the two may certainly overlap. My culture doesn’t involve memorizing sacred texts by reference numbers, but I’ve seen it done enough to recognize it for what it is: a reference meaningful only within the context of a specific religious text.
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In the entire video, the one thing I find most egregious is to be referred to as “bro”.
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Fuck! Me too.
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Best one of these stories I heard:
Biker riding along, Volvo comes flying out of a side street directly in front of him. Bike t-bones car, biker goes over the top, lands twenty feet downrange.
Biker gets up, whips off his helmet, marches back to the car, drags the driver half out of the window and clubs him unconscious with the helmet.
Biker then falls in a heap, as both of his legs were broken in the collision.
Adrenalin is a wonderful thing.
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There’s this thing called Google you should perhaps know about…
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Sorry, but if that’s the case you really need to be paying more attention when driving. The solution to a blind spot isn’t to assume there’s nothing in it, it’s to look more carefully.
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Updated.
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It doesn’t excuse their behavior, but making a mistake when driving (which we ALL do) is different than intentionally pulling out on someone.
Considering the number of accidents involving bikes, especially hitting cars that pull out in front of them, it illustrates exactly what I said was the cause of it - our stupid shitty brains. It isn’t a blind spot, it is blind bias.
Have you ever seen that video where you are supposed to count how many times people pass a basketball, and a guy in a gorilla suit walks through, and then they ask, did you see the gorilla and you are like, “What gorilla?”
Because one isn’t expecting to SEE something, they some times don’t see it. I have done it myself with a car in a residential area where I have turned probably 1000 times and never had another car on the road with me. Either that or it was perfectly behind the frame bar when I turned. Either way, while I avoided the accident, I totally did not see that car as I made my turn. Was I being a dick? No. Is it still my fault? Yes.
Of course - we all make mistakes - but did you apologise to the person you accidentally cut up or did you flip them off?
But he didn’t pull out and flipped him off. He pulled out, then drove some, suddenly there is a guy riding up on him, getting close to his car, driving aggressive and weird. If he didn’t know he pulled out in front of the guy, then he is probably like, “WTF is this guy’s problem?” then flipped him off for literally a split second and then made a passing motion.
He also had no idea he was just trying to get his attention about the wallet.
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This is disappointing. Some people are assholes. If you’re not one, then when you come across one don’t become one yourself.
“Here’s your wallet – it fell off your roof back there. Please be careful not to cut off motorbikes - we’re just trying to get to work too. Your cellphone is on your roof. And flipping me the finger was unwarranted – all I was trying to do was return your wallet.” That’s much more powerful of an interaction than throwing the guy’s phone on the ground.
Edit - I’m not disappointed in BoingBoing – just disappointed in the behavior demonstrated.
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When engaging in dialog, there is an onus on the part of each participant to do some work. When one member of the dialog obfuscates information, this does not require the other to break through that obfuscation. In fact, the obfuscator has failed to do their work properly, and should not expect their partner to do their work for them.
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Two wrongs don’t make a…aww fuck it. You’re both Dumbasses!
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I get what you’re saying, but given that the driver barely paused while leaving the lot and had his head turned away the whole time, I think he would have pulled out in front of a fire truck with lights on (but no siren, since the driver had his window down for ease of bird-flipping). Just oblivious.
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Honestly I’ve been thinking about “small-minded people taking petty revenge on one another” all day and think we should bring back taglines just so this can be one of them
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