Yes it totally matters VT Fan, Answer the question. How fast have you gone. Judge not. Lest ye be judged.
What the &%$& are you talking about? Why does it matter to you how fast another blogger on CelticsBlog has driven in the past.
That has nothing to do with this story. Grow up.
His point is simply that many posters on here have killed Tyreke, attacking him personally, for speeding, while I highly highly highly doubt anyone on this board can claim that they have never been guilty of speeding. Maybe you didn't quite understand this topic if you think that has nothing to do with the story. You can read the thread title if that will help.
You know, most people aren't attacking Tyreke personally.
My personal opinion, and all I know about Tyreke, is that he made a decision that was unequivocally an immature, self-centered, and dangerous decision.
Personally, I never once attacked his character or his person. This is the only thing I know about him and is the topic at hand: He decided to partake in the high-speed race.
I think this thread took a life on it's own because there is a surprisingly large portion of this board that doesn't think that what Evans did was dangerous. I am utterly baffled how anyone could watch that video and not think that Evans was acting dangerously. If that is the case, I have no idea what to say. Are such people just being contrary? Too young to know better? Some of it appears to be due to the fact that this particular dangerous activity has been pursued by a lot of people here, and, human nature being what it is, it's easier to say that Tyreke's activities (and by association, our own activities) are inevitable, cute, and innocent rather than acknowledge that Tyreke (and, by extension, we ourselves) made a conscious decision to place our own entertainment and/or priorities above the safety of others, knowing that we were putting other people's lives in danger. Does this make Tyreke (and others) "idiots" or "bad people?" Personally, I think not. A pattern of such behavior might earn someone the label of "immature" or "dangerous" or "reckless." But someone certainly can make an idiotic decision, a dangerous decision, a bad decision without being an idiot or a bad person.
That's not the problem for me. The problem here is that there seem to be a lot of drivers who post on this board who don't think that Evans was in a dangerous activity. That's scary. I understand how the human brain works: every time you do something dangerous, push the envelop, and are fine, you believe a little more that it was your skill that kept you safe, and that those people who do get hurt just don't have your skill...all with no understanding of how many uncontrolled variables there are that can arise at any time for any driver, and that perhaps these contribute to other peoples' accidents and may contribute to your own crash in the future.
Reaction times are constant, regardless of the speed at which you drive; your reactions don't get better with speed. Breaking distances increase at the square of the increase in speed. And greater speed leads to more severe accidents. These are all physical properties that are constant for everybody and are inarguable. They are physical laws. And they hold true regardless of the quality of the car (there seems to be a certain thought that a BMW is "built" for speed and, as such, is as safe at 130 as at 65; glad people are such suckers for advertising and slept through physics class).
In sum, Tyreke made a selfish decision that greatly increased the odds of hurting people around him. He broke the law to do so. This does not mean he is a bad person. But I fail to see how anyone could argue that it was not a selfish and endangering choice.
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