Bloggers Unite Against Abuse 9/27/07
Today is a day that many bloggers are coming together and blogging for a good cause. The topic is abuse and bloggers are free to choose what type of abuse they want to blog about. I will take on road rage and the abuse that drivers have for one another on our streets these days.
I don’t think many of us realize just how dangerous it is to operate a 2,000 pound vehicle and driving it recklessly is no excuse. We need to respect each other out on our road ways and look out for the other person out there. So many fatal tragedies happen everyday that could be avoided with a little more respect for our fellow drivers. There is no need to flip someone off when they don’t use a blinker or cut you off on the interstate. Just be thankful that you avoided them and respect the fact that the other driver might just have something weighing on their mind. Just imagine if you flipped off someone that had just learned of a family member’s death. That person might be feeling like life isn’t worth living without their loved one in their life anymore and if someone like you showed them a rude gesture, they just might snap and you would be on the wrong end of it. Two wrongs don’t make a right, and that needs to be what every driver has in their minds when they take the responsibility to operate a vehicle in public.
I know many people feel safe in their automobiles and enjoy making others life hard on the road. Just don’t think you’re safe because you’re in a car, because you can’t stay in that car forever. You would never ride someone’s backside in a supermarket if their buggy darted out in front of yours. This is because you are in the open and exposed in the supermarket. On the roads you have a false sense of security around you in your vehicle and it just makes you look so much weaker when you try to make someone pay for a driving mistake, that you think they made.
PLEASE DRIVE SAFE AND STOP THE ABUSE ON OUR ROADWAYS!
BUCKLE UP AND PLEASE DON’T DRINK AND DRIVE
September 27th, 2007 at 7:13 pm
[...] will be one of the biggest campaigns ever; that bloggers come together for. I chose to talk about driving abuse and how people act on our roadways with road rage so much. If you have a blog and would like to join in, then just post your message today or as soon [...]
September 27th, 2007 at 7:22 pm
[...] child and animal abuse and I thought I would take on one that might get left out. It’s the abuse of driving on our roads. Road rage is just too much and something we don’t need in our society. You can read more [...]
September 27th, 2007 at 7:34 pm
[...] time, then you can stop for just a bit and blog about abuse in your blog too. I chose to blog about road rage and the abuse on our roadways. There so many areas of abuse that us bloggers can cover today or in [...]
September 27th, 2007 at 7:53 pm
[...] talk about any abuse that you want and it can be about child abuse, animal abuse, spouse abuse, or abuse on our roads. Just select your topic and blog away on 9/27/07 or any day shortly after that. There are no [...]
September 29th, 2007 at 7:15 am
Even though September has come and gone, I’m still reading through all the super Blog Against Abuse subjects. Your is such an important example of societal abuse that isn’t often called by its rightful name! Abuse, in my mind, is any action that harms others…and I no longer make exceptions for absence of intent. If carelessness, neglect, even ignorance or anything else contributes to abuse against others, its still abuse and the victim suffers as much regardless of intent or not. That doesn’t mean intent doesn’t matter, just that someone or something is hurt when it could have been avoided. As you say, giving the finger, or crowding another vehicle etc. are unnecessary and may just be that last little thing that breaks a person. Thank you for writing about this important subject!
Take care…be aware,
Nancy Lee