I’m at 5.8 miles walking a day so far this year. You can be not sedentary and also alive.
On an unrelated note. What you’re doing is not making people more likely to ride a bike.
What I’m saying, and what I said, is not going to be the deciding factor of whether people ride a bike. This is what’s wrong with the internet. Well meaning people believe other people aren’t intelligent enough to decide for themselves. I believe the technical term is “white knighting”.
In a way, it’s similar to the “woke” controversy. You’re afraid once people read what I wrote about dying on a bike, they won’t be able to decide for themselves if a bike is for them, just like conservatives think seeing a same-sex embrace will turn their child gay.
The truth is, human behavior is a lot more behind the scenes than it’s probably comfortable for you to imagine. It feels right to point to one moment as the moment you decided to ride or not ride a bicycle, but it’s absolutely not true unless that one moment was deeply traumatizing. Stop treating strangers’ words like trauma, we don’t agree for reasons we may or may not be aware of. Neither of us is as important as you’re imagining.
Those stories of one person changing the world? Convenient and wrong. It was movements of lots of people. Movements built offline of people who spent face time planning real things they actually were going to do and then executing those plans.
So I appreciate you believing I have the power to dissuade people from riding bikes by telling my absolutely true story of almost dying on a bike, but it’s as big a waste of your time as me typing this thing you won’t fully understand (see what I did there?)
I’m at 5.8 miles walking a day so far this year. You can be not sedentary and also alive.
On an unrelated note. What you’re doing is not making people more likely to ride a bike.
What I’m saying, and what I said, is not going to be the deciding factor of whether people ride a bike. This is what’s wrong with the internet. Well meaning people believe other people aren’t intelligent enough to decide for themselves. I believe the technical term is “white knighting”.
In a way, it’s similar to the “woke” controversy. You’re afraid once people read what I wrote about dying on a bike, they won’t be able to decide for themselves if a bike is for them, just like conservatives think seeing a same-sex embrace will turn their child gay.
The truth is, human behavior is a lot more behind the scenes than it’s probably comfortable for you to imagine. It feels right to point to one moment as the moment you decided to ride or not ride a bicycle, but it’s absolutely not true unless that one moment was deeply traumatizing. Stop treating strangers’ words like trauma, we don’t agree for reasons we may or may not be aware of. Neither of us is as important as you’re imagining.
Those stories of one person changing the world? Convenient and wrong. It was movements of lots of people. Movements built offline of people who spent face time planning real things they actually were going to do and then executing those plans.
So I appreciate you believing I have the power to dissuade people from riding bikes by telling my absolutely true story of almost dying on a bike, but it’s as big a waste of your time as me typing this thing you won’t fully understand (see what I did there?)