NIP arrived. 987No, you pay as much attentions as you think you need to. It is when the attention you think you need to pay is less than...
No. Those are your words not mine. I am in favour of making the danger of using the road less.
Only in their use.
No. The road was never dangerous. It was only the use of it that produced the danger. By changing the road you simply change the degree of idiocy required to produce the danger.
NIP arrived. 986I think we are essentially in agreement. Except that because you don't want people to be able to weasel out of things you're saying the use of the road is the...
Nothing. Got it fine thanks. You?
No. Absoluetly not. I am saying that the driver is at fault. It is not and never can be the fault of the road. It just sat there and got driven along. If the manner fo that driving is inappropriate it is dangerous. If it is not then it is safe. The road is still the road.
No. The driver's use of the road was dangerous. The road could be changed to make that same use less dangerous. The road itself will remain an inanimate object.
In the same way that common use of the words is to absolve the driver from blame and shift it into the road as if the driver was incapable of doing anything about it.
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