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Re:How not to create traffic jams: Don’t let people park for... by revelation on Saturday April 08, 2017 @04:15PM (#14068776)
Not a straw-man at all. The point is: there was a choice. You can build infrastructure for cars, for bicycles, for trains, for rail, for lightrail, for pedestrians, for horses. Some of these are more or less useful without, cars are definitely in the less useful category.

It is not a fundamental property. It is not god-given. You were born into a world where car roads are ubiquitous and now your thinking stops slightly after linear extrapolation. That's not the case for everyone.

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Re:How not to create traffic jams: Don’t let people park for... by eveningcoffee on Saturday April 08, 2017 @05:13PM (#14069072)
From all these options only cars satisfy the freedom property.

Like I told, this is fundamental to the cars and can be to an extent only compared to the horses.

It is no surprise that this freedom comes with the price. I did not argue that it is not the case.

Nothing we have is god-given. All we have has been fought with somebodies blood.

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