Comment by lijok
2 days ago
Right and I assume we will have BO police at the gates to these trains?
People love their cars not because they’re enthusiasts
2 days ago
Right and I assume we will have BO police at the gates to these trains?
People love their cars not because they’re enthusiasts
I guess that's one reason to not use public transport, but it seems many cities overcome that pretty readily.
Perhaps it depends on how smelly your society is.
Anyway I think we are in agreement, given a good system and a good society trains become quite attractive, otherwise cars are more preferred.
That seems like a somewhat ridiculous objection. Should everybody start owning their own private planes to avoid people with BO at airplanes?
No, but if they could, they would. That’s what’s being debated here. Whether people would, not should.
Of course they wouldn't, owning and operating a plane is -incredibly- inconvenient. That's what we are discussing, tradeoffs of convenience and discomfort, you can't just completely ignore one reality to criticise the other (admiting some hypocrisy here since that ideal train system mentioned earlier only exists in a few cities).
Is this some culture or region or climate related thing? I’ve never heard of BO brought up as a reason to avoid public transport or flying commercial in northern parts of Europe. Nor have I experienced any olfactory disturbance, apart from the occasional young man or woman going a tad overboard with perfume on the weekends.
Should we restructure society so that having a private airplane is easier and cheaper, but if you don't have one you'll have serious trouble in daily life?
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