The Sunk Cost Fallacy and Cars

The sunk cost fallacy is a cognitive bias that makes you feel as if you should continue pouring money, time, or effort into a situation since you’ve already “sunk” so much into it already. This perceived sunk cost makes it difficult to walk away from the situation since you don’t want to see your resources wasted.

What if that something is a box of rat poison you mistook for a box of cookies? Should you eat it or throw it out?

This same logical fallacy is what prevents us from getting rid of cars and fossil fuels.

Sorry, I don't care how much you paid for your stupid car or how much the government spent on asphalt (toxic waste from oil production) roads.

YOU HAVE TO THROW IT OUT!

Your sunk cost fallacy is great if you need an excuse to keep killing yourself with cigarettes and booze. Just leave the rest of us out of it.

I have a right to breathe air that is free of poison and to not be surrounded by poison stone roads that hit 150 degrees and further heat the atmosphere.

Using cars and asphalt roads are acts of violence. You are literally poisoning and cooking us.

https://www.verywellmind.com/what-is-sunk-cost-fallacy-7106851

#BanCars #FuckCars #TheWarOnCars #ClimateCrisis #TraficViolence

@danielbowen

"Well, it's obviously the fault of the pedestrian. It always is. She should have been wearing a reflective vest and a bicycle helmet to go to the tram. She also should have been required to carry an electronic sensor to let self driving cars know her location. Of course she should have to pay for the device and keep it with her at all times. It will soon be available from Tesla for only $500 and it comes with a free Blue Check Mark from Twitter for one month.

When the robots come to kill us they won't be military Terminator robots. They'll be cars and automated landscaping equipment.

#BanCars #FuckCars #Tesla #Twitter #TraficViolence #FuckMusk #VictimBlaming #CarBrain #TheTerminator

After living abroad for 5 years, I returned to my #rural #American #Hometown. I rode as a passenger in a #car with my uncle and my brother. It was early morning we were on our way to #work. It was a dirt road with forest on both sides and occasional corn fields. A #opossum was on it's way home from a night of hunting and scavenging. My uncle said to my brother "kill that opossum." To which my brother responded by swerving the car to the edge of the road and crushing the opossum under his tires. I had grown up around these people and never realized just how ignorant and cruel they were until that moment. They kill animals for no reason at all and they do it on purpose with their #cars. Unfortunately, people like them are not rare in rural America. They do it to humans too out there and in urban and suburban areas. Cars should be banned or at least be fitted with GPS Speed Limiters to keep them at a safe speed of 20mph or less in most places that are accessible to pedestrians, bicyclists and animals. Killing an animal or a human with a car shouldn't be treated any differently than if a baseball bat or a gun had been used.
#BanCars #KillerCars #AnimalCruelty #TraficViolence #Urbanism #SpeedLimiter