If you have ever crate trained a pet dog, you will have found that dogs will do everything within their power to not shit where they sleep. A dog will hold it until their face turns blue. Unless of course they are already blue, then they will just get a darker shade. And if you (and the dog) have had the misfortune of getting stuck a little to long, and the dog HAS had to go in their crate, the minute the poor canine makes eye contact with you - you know it. The dog will feel as though they have betrayed the universe by pooping in the crate. Well, humans are assholes. We could learn a thing or two from our dogs. We only have one earth. Only one. No "fall back" or "plan B" exists despite what you may see in the Star Trek movies or read in the Cristopher Stasheff or Orson Scott Card novels. I imagine that some day some poor wasted species - a distant relative to the Human - who has had to survive underground or in bubbles without being able to breathe ...
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People drive like they are sitting on the couch watching TV. They forget that people's lives are at stake. We need people to be more aware, awake, attentive, and considerate behind the wheel.
We need more frequent and more difficult license testing. We need a higher bar and more rigid standards to get drivers licenses.
If 40,000 Americans were killed in "terrorist" attacks you would bet someone would notice. Yet 40,000 are killed annually in cars, and no one blinks.
Our streets and our infrastructure need to be designed for PEOPLE, not cars. Cars are simply tools - they should not be the focus of our society and our community.
But that's just my opinion. I could be wrong.