[PRCo] Re: More Darwyn

[Jim Holland]

Good Morning!


	Good Points  --  thanks for update.

	Esp. like the one about deaths due to alcohol vs wars.   
Exposes another area of Strong Human Weakness  --  easy to preach
against war because individual not personally involved.    But
don't talk to same individual about alcohol where same individual
Is Involved!

	Check out your environmentalists closely  --  what kind of cars
do they drive  --  do they have 2-refrigerators in addition to
deep freeze, etc., etc., etc.    Just examples of hyman
hypocrisy.

	Do  As  I  Say    ----    Don't  Look  At  What  I  Do!



> Fred Schneider wrote:

> I agree partially but I still feel that our friends
> on the other side of the ocean do a better job
> training people how to drive safely,

> Historically, people walking where they didn't belong
> caused far more accidents (including fatalities) with
> trains or trolleys than we those incurred by people
> on the rail cars.

> BUT WE CAN STILL DO A LOT IN THIS COUNTRY TOWARD
> SAFER ROADS BY NOT ALLOWING UNQUALIFIED PEOPLE TO
> TEACH OTHERS HOW TO DRIVE LIKE IDIOTS.  

> JOHN SWINDLER HAS POINTED OUT MANY TIMES HIS BELIEF
> THAT WE WILLING TOLORATE A CERTAIN NUMBER OF DEATHS
> EACH YEAR BECAUSE OF ALCOHOL, BUT WE GET UPSET IF
> A SMALLER NUMBER ARE KILLED IN A WAR.   THE SAME
> APPLIES TO ALLOWING X NUMBER OF PEOPLE TO BE KILLED EACH
> YEAR BECAUSE WE DON'T TEACH THEM CORRECTLY.  DEATHS ARE
> SIMPLY A COST OF DOING BUSINESS.



>> Jim Holland wrote:

>>         ALL  the drivers, pedestrians, motorists,
>> passengers, managers, labor, doctors, lawyers,
>> Indian-Chiefs, leaders, followers, etc.  Are  Taken
>> From  The  Same  Mold  --  Human--Mold.

>>         Hardly anything unique about driving habits
>> in one area over another  --  or any other *habit.*

>>         We have all probably seen the PBS documentary
>> detailing people getting killed walking across a
>> multiple track RR mainline.    Doc. starts with
>> people walking across the tracks, shows construction
>> of a people walk-way across same tracks All The
>> While with people walking across the tracks  -- 
>> shows the Completed Pedestrian Walkway across
>> the tracks  AND  People Still Walk Across The
>> Tracks and the doc emphasizes that it was the
>> rare individual to use the completed walkway.

>>         All this happened in Europe Where -
>> presumably - people know All About Transit,
>> Know How and Do Use Transit, and have higher
>> standards than elsewhere.



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