The true road to enlightenment starts when you realize that SUVs just aren’t fit to haul your kids and your groceries, and that the only logical path forward is to buy a massive lifted truck that puts a Sherman tank to shame to drive your statistical 37 miles per day in some modicum of safety.
They also tend to have less sprawl, more homogenous and high trust societies (relative to where most people live in the US), and a shaky history of true legally enforced disability considerations. On that latter part, there still isn’t a good equivalent to the ADA in European peer countries. Europeans will hand wave it away, but it’s too patchwork and exclusionary.
All things in this scope considered (i.e., not healthcare necessarily), I’d rather be disabled in the US than in Europe or most Asian countries because the US actually have strong legal protections both federally and at the state levels. Lack of extensive public transport outside of a couple major hubs is obviously a problem for most people (especially the disabled). But no other country comes close to enshrining protections like the US did with the ADA (and how some states extended it even more themselves).
In pedestrian-friendly cities, children usually just walk to school. They’re called 15 minute cities because because you can get anywhere you need, including schools, in 15 minutes.
Also, because there’s fewer roads to maintain, and the majority of people walk, the streets actually get plowed and handicapped folks often have an easier time getting around than in car-centric cities.
Same goes for living on college campus dorms.
It’s the one time in american life that anyone gets to live in a walkable community.
Imagine no cars when you got a physical disability, and two kids who need to be taken to school in winter, I’ll just toss em on my back and fly.
And yes perfect transit and funding would fix this. When that happens I’ll show you a pig flying
Good point, SUVs for everyone is the only truly enlightened path.
The true road to enlightenment starts when you realize that SUVs just aren’t fit to haul your kids and your groceries, and that the only logical path forward is to buy a massive lifted truck that puts a Sherman tank to shame to drive your statistical 37 miles per day in some modicum of safety.
Creating an exaggerated argument to argue against, one that no one made, does not nothing but display your emotional immaturity.
How so? The person they replied to is also mocking in bad faith.
“i have a disability and your idea doesn’t work for me or people like me”
“shut up that is bad faith go back to being a doormat and never mention disability again”
now why do i see this conversation spring up everywhere people on the internet are discussing getting rid of cars
Because it is the same as renting or using AI. They are the triggers of
RedditLemmy dogpiling.You do know that other places in the world have disabled people and children who go to school, right?
They seem to still be alive.
They also tend to have less sprawl, more homogenous and high trust societies (relative to where most people live in the US), and a shaky history of true legally enforced disability considerations. On that latter part, there still isn’t a good equivalent to the ADA in European peer countries. Europeans will hand wave it away, but it’s too patchwork and exclusionary.
All things in this scope considered (i.e., not healthcare necessarily), I’d rather be disabled in the US than in Europe or most Asian countries because the US actually have strong legal protections both federally and at the state levels. Lack of extensive public transport outside of a couple major hubs is obviously a problem for most people (especially the disabled). But no other country comes close to enshrining protections like the US did with the ADA (and how some states extended it even more themselves).
we’re kidding ourselves if we pretend it’s anything more than a de jure situation.
Yeah they have CARS.
In pedestrian-friendly cities, children usually just walk to school. They’re called 15 minute cities because because you can get anywhere you need, including schools, in 15 minutes.
Also, because there’s fewer roads to maintain, and the majority of people walk, the streets actually get plowed and handicapped folks often have an easier time getting around than in car-centric cities.
Or just the average European city or small town
my 15 minute car city is a 25 minute ebike city and it’s pretty great
Cars continue to work even if fewer people need to drive to get where they need.
Having large sidewalks, bikelanes and good public transport does not mean that you are not allowed to bring your kids to school in your car.
However, it means that your kids could walk to school or use the bike/bus in an environment that is safer and less polluted.
Get a grip