Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

[RealAlHazred]

Dr. Luper-Foy was puzzled by my intro, and actually took off a couple of points. (A+ reduced to A. )

Fair. I mean, you just made up philosophers. We have no idea what the level of philosophical discourse was between the philosophical Silurians so making it up is understandable, but it fails the test for academic rigor!

 

[FrogReaver]

In South Carolina, for example, the law behind the "slow traffic keep right" signs is actually "no leftmost lane unless passing (barring congestion etc...)". So, paralleling someone in the lane to your right is in fact often illegal even if you are going the speed limit.

What happens if you were passing then they sped up to match you. Not an uncommon thing to witness.

 

[FrogReaver]

I normally go to the speed limit. Very often I find myself being tailgated by a truck -and it is almost always a luxury truck or SUV- and when I move out of the way, they accelerate to 80 or over 90 mph. (The upper limit in the city is 50) Really, some people have a cause, some just want to see the world burn, and some just don't give a damn...

If they don’t tailgate you do you ever get out of their way?

 

[FrogReaver]

Does feel to me like 90 is probably ridiculous in any city in any case! That being said, Chicago suburbs do have an interstate with up to 14 lanes going through them where the left lane is just cars doing 90+ sometimes. (I am sometimes not sure Illinois actually does have any state police, appearances in the Blues Brothers not withstanding).

I guess the question is - if the right lane has space and doesn't have a lot of people turning into it and you aren't passing people and you aren't planning on getting in the center turn lane and there are folks who want to go faster piling up behind you - why stay in the left lane in any 4-lane (2 each way) situation?

I have a common problem. I’m driving about 5 over in the left lane. I’m moving faster than most traffic in the right lane someone gets behind me a bit close. When there’s a decent gap on the right I get over only to find they want to go about 1/2 a mph faster than me and by the time the gap ends instead of being in front of me they are immediately besides me and I’m having to slow way down because I caught up to the super slow traffic in the right line.

I’m to the point now that unless I believe it’s 90% likely the person behind me will be in front of me by the next slow car then I’m not moving.

Nit sure if it’s proper etiquette but it’s damn annoying otherwise and happens quite often.

 

[FrogReaver]

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Whataboutism is not critical thought.

I just think some people are much more morally bothered by hypocrisy than others.

 

[Scribe]

I just think some people are much more morally bothered by hypocrisy than others.

There's no hypocrisy in discussing a specific issue, without trying to obfuscate the situation with whataboutism.

 

[payn]

I just think some people are much more morally bothered by hypocrisy than others.

That assumes the premise are even comparable and not an out of context topic switch. Often, whataboutism is a way to point out inconsistency but folks forget to make that point as they are engaging in it.

 

[RealAlHazred]

In New Jersey, everybody just drives 75 miles an hour -- the police can't pull everyone over.

 

[FrogReaver]

That assumes the premise are even comparable and not an out of context topic switch. Often, whataboutism is a way to point out inconsistency but folks forget to make that point as they are engaging in it.

I think 99% of what gets labeled whataboutism is done either unintentionally or intentionally to not engage with whatever inconsistency is obviously being called out.

That said calling out inconsistency is probably the poorest form of persuasion but if the premises for the discussion aren’t agreed on it can aid in a bit of reset and critical thinking.

 

[dragoner]

Indiana you are supposed to let them pass, even if they are speeding.