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Article: Monsters of the driveway: morality should drive vehicle choices. (Commentary).(High and Mighty: SUVs--The World's Most Dangerous Vehicles and How They Got That Way)(Book Review)
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- Los Angeles Business Journal
- Article date:
- October 14, 2002
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A hapless reader once asked the writer of "The Ethicist" column in The New York Times magazine whether he should buy a sport utility vehicle.
"There's no way to justify endangering others just so you can play cowboy," the columnist hissed. Anyone who bought an SUV, he added, would be "driving straight to hell."
The need to moralize, for some people, is as vital as the need for food or warmth. The laws of physics will not be denied: all that pent-up scorn must be discharged somewhere.
So the modem moralizer is forced to turn his censorious eye on smoking, fast food and SUVs. Keith Bradsher can tell you all about them.
And he will, too, ...