well... at least this is some honesty.
Personally, I dont worry about such thinga because of it happens, it happens and rrally there is not a damn thing I can do to change it.
The behavior of others is out of my control, all I can do is worry about myself. .. I dont put the responsibility of my safety on others... I do whatd needed to keep myself in a position of where im in control of my destiny... instead of worrying about the guy droving 120 I simply try and keep aware so that I can dodge him when the time comes. Instead of worrying about the psycho with the gun I try and keep vigilant and aware of my surroundings.... you need to worry more about yourself and less about the actions of those around you. You cant contril how others choose to live their lives.... the only thing YOU can do is to entrust your safety to yoursf and yourself alone... that way youre bot pointinf the dinger at everyone else and constantly blaming something/someone for all your problems.
Accepted, the behavior of others is out of my control, and like anybody, I take reasonable precautions to protect myself. I drive as defensively as I can, and I respect the rules of the road. While I am out and about, I don't spend my time worrying about how their reckless behaviour of others can harm me, but I am aware of it. I believe I have pretty reasonable situational awareness. I think your perspective is one of someone who hasn't experienced huge losses from the reckless behaviours of others, so it has a detached blase feel to it. Almost as if you are convinced bad shit couldn't really happen to you so why worry about it. I could be wrong though.
I don't point the finger at everyone else, just those responsible. It may come as a shock to you, but quite often peoples problems are the fault of others, it's that simple. If a child is hit by a drunk driver while crossing the road legally goes on to lose their legs, one can fairly say her problems are the fault of someone else, and she rightly can blame them and speak out about their feelings on the matter and lobby for some type of protection from such an accident occuring to her again.
I disagree with you in that individuals don't have any influence over others and how they live their lives. The whole advertising industry is based on the premise this is achievable. Let's take for instance the car industry in it's infancy, cars were notoriously dangerous and many people died horrible violent deaths. That pattern continued unabated until Ralph Nader came along and questioned whether or not cars could be made safer. He lobbied for changes to be made to the way automobiles were made and demanded they be made safer. He was hated by the car industry and they even tried to set him up to publicly shame him which didn't work because he was a squeaky clean do-gooder. The car industry argued that affordable vehicles couldn't be made safely and resisted any changes to their industry. Anyway,long story short, after much resistance Ralph nader won and the car makers found a way to actually profit from making cars safer. So, thanks to him, and the pain he felt after some of his friends died in horrible motor vehicle accidents we are all safer in modern cars. Ralph could have adopted your attitude and just fought hard to avoid being another statistic while driving a dangerous vehicle, or he could have done what he did.
One needs to protect oneself the best they can, but they also need to speak up about issues that continue to unnecessarily endanger them. If you want to know why people don't speak up, investigate what happened to Ralph Nader when he did, or Julian Assange, or Edward Snowden. Hell, its dangerous business being outspoken. Do you think if getbig was a physical meeting place that I would have survived this long without being beaten to death. Most men don't speak out because they are scared, and so they should be. But being scared isn't a good reason to remain silent while injustice prevails.
