When you are stuck in traffic, are you free? How much work do you have to suffer through to pay for the car, the insurance, the gas, the repairs...
2007-07-08 08:17:51 · 7 answers · asked by megalomaniac 7 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
Prison, its poluting our air, slowly killing us.
2007-07-08 08:29:34 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Its freedom. It makes me free to choose not to live in a city where I sit in traffic jams. I can choose to go there and have, but I live 14 miles from the nearest small town. I have seen the elephant and I don't find it all that appealing. WIth my car I just recently drove form Texas to California and back. I visited LA and Hollywood for the first and last time. A long the way I stopped in Sin City and had a blast. I saw the Big Ditch out there in Arizona. I went when I wanted and I stopped when I didn't. I took 3 people with me. I did it all in 9 days and 3200 miles. I stayed in 5 different cities. I left some cash along the way and picked up a bit in Ruidoso, NM from the others visiting the Mescalero Tribe's new casino. I saw antelope, idiots, freaks, the Pacific, big horns, desert, mountains. Without my car I would still be walking just to get out of Texas. A car gives you the freedom to live where you want and to work where you want. You might say that if I were an animal and I am, my dominate home range is about 200 miles across but I have the potential to roam far south into Mexico and North into Canada. If I didn't have a car my horse would get tired and I would need an airplane big enough to carry him too. Fact is, I could not live here in this part of Texas and niether could many other people in this day and time.
2007-07-08 15:39:02 · answer #2 · answered by cold_fearrrr 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Freedom. It's a privilege.
It's easy to rethink things when everything is at your grasp - or when freedom is guaranteed by a set of keys in your pocket. I wouldn't take that for granted.
I don't like traffic or the fact that my air conditioner, door handles, passenger side rear view mirror, FM radio and CD player don't work, but at least I can go wherever whenever.
2007-07-09 10:48:50 · answer #3 · answered by DeanPonders 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Mine is a Prison cause I owe sooooo much $$$$$ on it still. I'm locked in the prison of my payments for at least another year... then with the way gas prices are climbing I'd say ITS STILL A PRISON!
2007-07-09 11:28:03 · answer #4 · answered by MsCrtr 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
My vehicle gives me freedom. I am fortunate enough to live in the country, but it makes it inconvenient as far as access to amenities goes! The sacrifices I make to have my vehicle are worth it. The alternative is to move to an area with noise and pollution. An unacceptable option!
2007-07-08 16:06:28 · answer #5 · answered by Me 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It was freedom to me.... until gas prices went up.
Now I can't afford to take the road-trips I wanted to take and go on the trips I planned for it (it's 4wd). So it became just another appliance at that point.
2007-07-08 15:26:11 · answer #6 · answered by Melissa Me 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
No its a prision...to be a slave to keep something running so you can go and be a slave to someone else so they get rich and you don't.
2007-07-10 22:02:22 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋