maybe every parking spot should be handicapable

And being an egalitarian society is bad because... ?

uh that's not egalitarian. in fact i'd just about say it's the exact opposite. if we treated everyone equally, we wouldn't have people calling for noisemakers on automobiles for one specific group. we wouldn't have affirmative action. we wouldn't have a national <fill in the blank with any non-white skin color/disease/handicap/sexual preference> association for every possible combination.

treating people equally and/or giving them equal rights is completely different from making people equals. making people equals = socialism.

we would still have all of that because people will never be treated equally. what you are proposing wouldnt treat blind people for example equally.
we would still have national associations because these arent just about civil rights, its a lot about pride, networking, giving people jobs and charity.

no, it'd be treating them equally, regardless of their blindness. doing extra things for them means we're treating them un-equally because of their handicap. Again I think you guys are mis-interpreting how the word "equal" works. Being treated equally is completely different than making everyone equal. They're completely opposites in fact. You can't make everyone equal without treating them unequally. And vice versa. Our more liberal politicians make this same mistake (although I think it's more of a vote grab than a mistake).

I have no problem with accomodating handicapped people, as my best friend has cerebral palsy and is in a wheelchair. I just feel that putting a noisemaker on a car for blind people is a little over the top, and a little too accomodating. Putting braille on the restroom sign so the dude doesn't go into the women's bathroom, ok cool, but requiring every person in the country with a quiet car to install a noisemaker because of the possibility they could encounter a blind person is taking it to an extreme that's unnecessary. Cars will undoubtedly keep getting quieter and quieter as electric cars become more feasible.

its way more work to accommodate a person in a wheelchair
but he shouldnt get any help because hes so much better off than we are now

YES! Let's build electric cars with deisel generators. We don't need batteries, we have generators to create energy. And the noise, ah, the noise will be wonderful. Hahahahaha!!

I know it won't really solve anything, bit it is like a big, expensive go-cart. Whoot!

the two are not comparable. one cannot get across the street, or into businesses, etc without ramps. the law requires sidewalks to have ramps for this reason. the accomodation is the requirement of the local governments building the streets and such, or businesses and such.

with the blind person noisemaker for the car thing, you're requiring everyone else in the country to conform. see, I am not required to have ramp at my house in case someone in a wheelchair comes over.

like you said before, you almsot got ran over and you're not even blind. you just weren't paying attention. so that's the answer to this problem, PAY ATTENTION TO WHERE YOU'RE GOING. not "lets put noisemakers on everyone's silent car.

plus, I shudder at the thought of "ringtones" for cars...

can we sticky this? I really think I'm going to be using this thread a lot come soon.

http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/us/2008/0...ref=videosearch


oh and this comes to mind. HOW FUCKING DUMB IS THAT JUDGE?!?!?!?!

hmm, depends who you talk to.

So on the radio this morning they had some douchebag come on and talk about how parents should pre-screen KUNG FU FUCKIN PANDA before letting their kids see it... he said it could have an impact on kids values and how they treat other kids...

Didn't some kids kill another after watching the Mighty Morphing Power Rangers Movie?

not sure... if they did it's not like the movie is at fault

Two boys in like Minnesota killed a little girl by using moves they learned on Power Rangers.