"Blackblade" wrote in message ...
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Edward Dolan wrote:

The only thing that is invalidated is your thinking about the
point. You obviously do understand the nature of a tautology.

It should have read ... you obviously do NOT understand the nature of a tautology.
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Actually there is a universal truth stated in my above
paragraph. How indeed do you decide what is superior to what is inferior? Appeal
to science and some miscellaneous facts? Don't make me laugh!

Your preferred method, rather than facts and science, is your judgement ??? Now I'm laughing. I wouldn't trust you to judge a pie eating contest.

I am appealing to what superior persons (as a class) in general think about phenomena. That is always how you decide what is superior to what is inferior.
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Your presence on trails on a bike will shortly be your major
problem when hikers decide to take you on face to face. It will become a
question of how much unpleasantness do you want to put up with. Since bikers are
such thugs, I recommend that hikers go armed with a concealed firearm on their
person just in case the thugery comes to the fore.

The thug is the one wishing to initiate violence .. in this case ... YOU. I think we're seeing your true colours now. You can't win your argument since it's so incoherent and now, having lost the debate, you want to resort to violence to achieve your ends by other means.

Violence must be met with violence, at least in the moment, since there are unlikely to be any cops on the trails policing things. Your days of doing what you want with your bike on trails are clearly numbered. A few murders here and there will cause everyone to rethink what trails are for and who they are for.

So what happened about your definition of Freedom Ed ?
You hypocrite. You want your freedoms to trump everyone elses.

Bikers have no right to be on hiking trails - period! They are
transgressors and usurpers. If the god damn ****ing land and park managers
weren't such idiots, they would KNOW that!

I have EXACTLY THE SAME right as you to a public resource Ed. It's my land just as much as it's yours. And, to that end, the Park Managers do know ... that it's public land and that the public has a right to enjoy it responsibly.

Trails must be managed for best use, not most use. Elementary my dear Watson!

Ed, you CAN hike a trail with bikers there just as you CAN sit
in a crowded restaurant. I don't care about your purpose or means.
To make the point, redefine your purpose and means for the restaurant ....
purpose - enjoying a quiet meal, means - table in a quiet restaurant.
You've just created the same, spurious, rationale as you do for the
trails.

The above example is not an irreconcilable conflict whereas
trail use is. I cannot hike a trail if it is being overrun with bikers. Means
and purpose determine everything. It is what trails are all about.

Ed, unless someone has removed your legs or is physically preventing you from doing so you CAN hike a trail whether bikers are there or not.

“Means and purpose determine everything. It is what trails are all about.” – Ed Dolan

Mountain bikers are barbarians and have no right to be on any trail used by hikers – unless they want to get off their god damn ****ing bikes and walk like everyone else. When they crash and injure themselves, I rejoice! If and when they manage to kill themselves, I say good riddance to bad rubbish! Death to mountain biking!

“Tread softly! All the earth is holy ground.”
~ Christina Rossetti (Psalm 24),
from "A Later Life: A Double Sonnet of Sonnets"

Mountain bikes have wheels. Wheels are for roads.

Trails are for walking. What’s the matter? Can’t walk?

Ed Dolan the Great
aka
Saint Edward the Great