Mason  🏃‍♂️ ✂️

I'm often a pedestrian, and I gotta say: yes, a distracted or aggressive driver can kill ya, but it seems to me that a distracted or aggressive cyclist can still fuck you up pretty badly, and as a percentage by vehicle type I'm noticing a lot more of the latter lately

We have actual numbers on car vs bike caused deaths/injuries, and they're different by about four orders of magnitude. So this is absolutely an issue of your irrational fears - like schools that run active shooter drills, the solution here is for you to get over it.

I would also not like to be maimed, though? Christ, y'all are sociopaths.

Bikes also very rarely maim people (although harder to get hard stats for that). I wouldn't like to be maimed by a bike, but I also wouldn't like to be shot by a neonazi on a shooting spree. I could easily scare myself by both possibilities, but I'd rather trust the stats.

There are far fewer cyclists on the road than cars. I'm noticing what seems like a disproportionate level of aggressive or neglectful behavior. And the replies to this post make it pretty clear that there's not a great sense of responsibility in this community.

No, there's an appropriate sense of responsibility. If you want to convince anyone bikes are more comparatively dangerous to cars, get some stats that show it (hint: you can't).