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You sound like the people who explain that they're good drivers while using instagram on a phone because they have a lot of experience driving cars and using phones.



Which is unfortunate because one of these things has an energy of 1MJ and the other has an energy of 50kJ, claiming some sort of equivalency is totally unrealistic.


You’re right, they’re not equivalent at all. When you’re in a car you have all manner of protection around you to shelter you from injury if you crash. The other, uh


It's not about you, it's about hurting others, you're welcome to set your risk tolerance wherever you like, the problem is how your actions effect others.




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