4mo ago

What terminal car-brain does to a society

reason.com Mom jailed for letting 10-year-old walk alone to town

It was dinnertime on October 30, 2024, when police handcuffed Brittany Patterson in front of three of her four children and drove her to the station in

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Mom Jailed for Letting 10-Year-Old Walk Alone to Town
"I was not panicking as I know the roads and know he is mature enough to walk there without incident," says Brittany Patterson.

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Mom jailed for letting 10-year-old walk alone to town

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very funny to see this coming from Reason, a libertarian rag that hates public transit
- I've seen Reason speak highly of Japan's privatized public transport
  
  Which public transport? Tokyo Metro is publicly-owned. Some of the JR branches are still publicly-owned. JR was only privatized in the late 80s as an anti-labor move and to deflect from the unpopularity of closing unprofitable rural lines. But of course the government built most of the network, including the first shinkansen lines.
  
  https://reason.org/commentary/high-speed-rail-japan-shinkansen/
  
  It sounds like they're praising it in Japan and saying "of course it could never work here, Americans are just genetically predisposed to cars".
  
  Right. I will say there is a lot of the US where cars make sense because they use the same roads that farm equipment uses (which does not make much sense to build rail for), but in the cities (and thus the suburbs) it seemed largely cultural from any historical analysis I've seen (with segregation, excessive monopolization of passenger rail, and the advent of modern advertising).
- Angry, vindictive Internet dwellers love to identify with the left while arguing on behalf of libertarians. So long as Somebody On The Other Side is getting punished the specifics of self responsibility and internal consistency don't matter too much.
  
  Angry and vindictive? You're the one hate-reading a community you clearly don't like
  
  It's not hate reading, it's loving honesty. The article frames the story as an anti-government civil liberty issue, and the community is letting blind rage at the mention of a car create a blind spot over self-defeating libertarianism.

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