[*BCM*] Bostoncriticalmass Digest, Vol 53, Issue 12

[David Atkins]

As a cyclist who was hit by a car last week, I don't get any pleasure from
videos like this. Actually, I think, if the video is real, it is almost a
form of "violence pornography". It should be considered legally obscene to
distribute a video of a person being killed or seriously injured.

-- 
Dave Atkins
http://blog.davewrites.com
http://westwoodblog.org


On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 2:54 PM, Matt Woolhouse <matwoolhouse at yahoo.com>wrote:

> Maybe it's better not take sides.
> I don't think there is anyplace for a video like this.
> Is it right to take pleasure watching a video where someone gets their ass
> handed to them.
> Personally I think it's a bit disturbing.
>
>
>
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> *From:* Robotica <androidqueen at gmail.com>
> *To:* Boston Critical Mass <list at bostoncriticalmass.org>
> *Sent:* Tuesday, November 18, 2008 2:29:04 PM
> *Subject:* Re: [*BCM*] Bostoncriticalmass Digest, Vol 53, Issue 12
>
> Agreed.  There's a major difference between being sympathetic to cyclists
> and taking pleasure in the fact that someone who may have been about to do
> something nasty to a cyclist was seriously injured or killed.
>
> -m
>
> On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 2:20 PM, Rachel Elizabeth Dillon <
> rachel at akrasiac.org> wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 06:59:14PM +0000, Martin Rodriguez wrote:
>> > OK, correct me if I'm wrong:  the kid in the car was trying to do
>> > what exactly to a cyclist?  Hit him?  Knock him off his bike?  What was
>> > his intention?  Suppose he had been successful in knocking the cyclist
>> > off of his bike, and it was the cyclist who was seriously injured?
>>
>> It's hard to tell for sure, but it looks like he was trying to injure
>> the cyclist; or, rather, he was trying to somehow spook or shove the
>> cyclist in a way likely to cause injury. A brief googling hasn't turned
>> up anything authoritative.
>>
>> > I got on this email list because of an incident on my bike where some
>> > passing motorists threw something out their windows at me as they passed
>> > in their car.  I really don't like people in cars who do stuff like this
>> > to cyclists.  My sympathies are ALWAYS with the cyclists, and I hoped
>> > that viewpoint would be shared by others in this group.
>>
>> I like to think I have enough sympathy for both the cyclist and the kid
>> who got hit by the car; it's not a zero-sum game. The cyclist didn't
>> deserve to get injured by some kid pulling what he thought was a prank,
>> and the kid didn't deserve to die for pulling a dangerous prank at
>> someone else's expense. I'm not rushing to pay his funeral expenses
>> and console his family, but if he had injured the cyclist, been caught
>> on camera, and been brought to trial, I don't think any of us would be
>> seriously advocating the death penalty. (At least, I would hope that
>> viewpoint to be shared by others in the group, too.)
>>
>> -r.
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