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QUESTION:Is there no social balance? Is there no half-way-house?
Think of it more extreme. Suppose I wanted to buy a rubber-duck (wheeled)
excavator and drive that up the road to the shops. It's completely legal,
safe, comfortable. Great view of the road, and you can look down on others
quite well. As long as you arn't in a hurry, it's quite viable. So
if I see myself as needing a wheeled excavator (for whatever reason), what
standing does a third party have in that decision?
ANSWER: All of which are fully applicable to my somewhat silly wheeled excavator.
It's perfectly whithin my rights to buy one an use it. And I'm sure I could
fit more than a month's shopping into one of those bigger buckets. However,
I'm somewhat curtailed in buying this because I give a damn how my
neighbours feel, how the drivers feel who have to stick behind me because I
can't exceed 20MPH etc etc
Point being, there are sound unsociable reasons for not buying a wheeled
excavator. Likewise, there are sound unsociable reasons for not buying
an off-roader.
(Rather annoyingly, a reason for a particular driver friend to own an
off roaders was to "look down on the other driver scum." Frankly, this
attitude to other road users is reason enough for condeming the vast
majority of off-road users. Assuming this attitude is prevalent, of
course.)
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