Oh gimme a break, if a quick copy, paste into Google, take brief look (all in another tab) is too much work for you… 
I’m heartened to hear that many of you felt (as I do) that this was a missed opportunity to show forgiveness and in doing so, also offer the driver a very large slice of humble pie.
Redemptive forgiveness is something valued and shared by most of the world’s religions. @Mister44 references Taosim, @petzl cites Christianity–both serve as examples of this pattern. I realize that Christianity may be considered the more prescriptive of the two but I don’t feel that @petzl’s reference was an effort to proselytize.
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Again, the question isn’t whether looking it up is too much work, but rather, why the recipient should do any work to understand the sender’s point. If the sender had a point to make, they should make it as cleanly and clearly as possible.
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Dropping the phone sort of validates the driver’s initial assholery. If the biker had been polite all the way through, the driver might feel abashed and given to self-reflection, but this way he just reverts to the “fuck this guy” attitude.
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I saw that gorilla the first time, not knowing the gimmick, and every time since when it’s been shown (at staff retreats, team-building seminars, that kind of thing) I am incredulous at how many people are gorilla-blind. Part of me suspects they’re fucking with me, or playing along with the presenter. It’s all I can do to refrain from yelling out “HOLY SHIT A GORILLA” and ruining it for everyone.
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Well either your brain is amazing, or you got lucky that time. Or maybe it is sharper than average and you notice things more than most people. I do that. I know where things are at at houses I don’t live at because I walked by it once and saw it there. Or I will notice some detail on a building or an animal in a yard/field.
But the point is, everyone’s brains are susceptible to sometimes filtering out information we don’t expect to be there.
That experiment is an evocation of inattentional blindness; it’s a demonstration of the fact that visual perception is a top-down process, not a matter of passive video recording. It is, as is demonstrated, easy to miss apparently salient cues when performing an act of focussed attention.
That isn’t what happened here. The driver wasn’t overwhelmed by competing stimuli; he chose to direct his attention away from the possible oncoming traffic. His manner of entering the road would have been stupidly reckless even if he had done the bare minimum required and carefully checked for oncoming traffic.
It was an act of homicidally careless selfishness, nothing else.
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You really think someone who quotes the bible in the form of “<BIBLE-QUOTE>, biatch” could possibly be proselytizing? Do I really need to submit my atheist bona fides prior to such a quotation?
Religion reflects basic human cooperative instincts, not the other way around. Throughout civilization, religions have become more and more civil as we grow more civilized. It is not religion that has made us more civilized. (Now, I may need to submit my theist bona fides, lest you interpret that as atheist.)
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