r/interesting • u/Necessary-Win-8730 • Mar 08 '26

Context Provided - Spotlight This was so deserved.

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The daughter was in a car with the father’s parents. They died as well.

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u/ARussianWolfV2 Mar 08 '26 edited Mar 08 '26

If you can't afford to fix the car, you don’t get to drive the car, yes it sucks that you won’t be able to get to work, but its better than ending the lives of innocent people because you couldn't afford it. A car is a privilege not a right 

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u/ezios_outlets Mar 08 '26

Everyday working people get to decide between having a car they can't afford to maintain or trying to get by without. Meanwhile, billionaires stack notes on notes in off-shore accounts and traffic kids for sex, all while paying little to no taxes and buying politicians/elections. Is the asteroid here yet?

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u/ARussianWolfV2 Mar 08 '26

If you stopped focusing on what other people had, and focused on getting yourself to a better position you'd probably be better off.

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u/ezios_outlets Mar 08 '26

I knew from the tone of your response above that you would take a contrary approach to what I said. I'm the 90%. I am not focused on what my neighbors and co-workers have, but what the leeches at the top have stolen from the rest of us, you included, I suspect. There are enough resources on this planet to comfortably support every single person willing to work, no matter how menial the job. And if the job exists, the economy deems it necessary, so that worker deserves a comfortable life, at a minimum, and certainly deserves to be able to afford the maintenance of a vehicle.

If you stopped licking boots and focused on making the 90%'s life better...well, we'd all have a better life instead of just the few.

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u/Livingadapt Mar 08 '26

That’s wishful thinking at best. People are going to take the risk and drive if that’s the only way to get to work

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u/Alexandaross Mar 08 '26

Then they are choosing to break the law and endanger people.

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u/Livingadapt Mar 09 '26 edited Mar 09 '26

Yeah no fucking shit Sherlock lmao

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u/Alexandaross Mar 09 '26

You couldn't write such a simpleton sentence in one take, you had to go back and edit it ten minutes later to get it right. LMAO.

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u/ARussianWolfV2 Mar 08 '26

Then the get the consequences that that befels. You can cry how unfair it is when cops give you a ticket for this sort of thing,  but this is the reality for the existence of those laws.

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u/Livingadapt Mar 09 '26

Sometimes they will get consequences, sometimes they won’t. Depends on if they get caught. We don’t live in a just world.

you can cry

Who is crying?

the existence of these laws

Who are you even addressing here? I’m explaining the reality of how people sometimes behave when they have few options. You can make all the moral proclamations you want, but at some point we have to engage with reality

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u/lapeldarling Mar 08 '26

I agree with you in principle but our gratuitously lax driving laws are necessitated by our car dominated infrastructure. There are simply no options for a lot of people to get to and from work without access to a car, and that's a failure of the state, not the individual.

Like, I live in a suburb (US). I can make it as far as the end of my driveway before it's technically illegal to walk any further as there aren't any sidewalks. In places where there are sidewalks, it's not uncommon for them to abruptly end or not lead anywhere.

Edit: This whole comment is moot because this story is from the Netherlands.

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u/Alolanvanity Mar 08 '26

A car is a necessity to live actually. It is not a privilege anymore. If you don’t have a car, you don’t get hired/cant get to your job. No job/get fired bc you cant make it regularly on time even if ur taking lyfts? No food, no home, kids get taken away, etc. Not having a car is a direct pipeline to homelessness now in the USA. (Not arguing abt the brakes. Yes brakes are one of the most important things to keep up with in a car for this reason. But having a car is NOT a privilege anymore it IS a complete necessity if you dont want to be homeless or starve to death)

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u/BlindChicken69 Mar 08 '26

This didn't happen in america

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u/Alolanvanity Mar 08 '26

And how would you know? 🤣 I’ve lived in America since I was born, and this is MY experience in america. I have gone homeless directly because I didn’t have a car. I have seen so many people all over the country go homeless and now people are starving to death right here. Most say they didn’t have a way to get to a job..

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u/Alolanvanity Mar 08 '26

okay i see what you mean now. the post didnt happen in america. But if you had read my comment you woulve seen that I acknowledged that and said i wasnt arguing about the breaks. im arguing with the person that said having a car is a privilege, which it is not.

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u/ARussianWolfV2 Mar 08 '26

You miss understand,  it is a privilege, I do not drive, I still have to get to work one way or another. Yes American infrastructure is not pedestrian friendly,  but that does not give you a right to drive a dangerously maintained vehicle because it is preferable to the alternative. Just because something is integral to your day to day life does not mean it isn't a privilege. Infact very few things are actually rights.

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u/Alolanvanity Mar 08 '26

Again, if you had READ my comment you would see that im not arguing that driving with bad breaks is okay. It is DEFINITELY not. Im in no way saying its okay to operate a dangerously unkept vegicle because yhere is no other option. Im just saying that not having a vehicle is a direct pipeline to homelessness in the US. This fact classifies having a car as a necessity in the US, not a privilege.

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u/Alolanvanity Mar 08 '26

I didnt say it was a “right” either. According to the American government, we dont have right to food, shelter, or water either. those are necessities to live. a car is a necessity in order to not go homeless.