(July 25, 2016 at 7:03 pm)CapnAwesome Wrote: Sure, but what you originally said was that you never pick up hitchhikers and would be uncomfortable if someone else did with you in the car. Nobody is arguing that you are obligated to drive crackheads around the inner city. It's a moot point anyway, since people don't hitchhike in the city but between cities. I generally pick up anybody who doesn't appear under the influence of drugs or alcohol. It doesn't mean I don't talk to them for a bit before letting them in my car. It's the same with refugees, vet them before letting them into the country. Nobody is arguing that we just let people flood in unchecked.
I'm not afraid of the refugees and I'm not afraid of hitchhikers. If that's the way you are going to live your life, it's up to you. But the idea that safety should come before having enriching experiences and meeting interesting people from foreign lands is a dismal one, in my opinion.
Yeah, we're hopping back and forth between what I am comfortable with, and how safe you guys claim it is. I'm never picking up a hitchhiker, because I don't care about strangers. So any risk, even a 1 in 100,000,000 is more than I'm willing to incur. But you guys are saying it's safe, which is a different discussion. But I don't think you can quantify the risk.
Already, it's gone from safe to safe as long as they pass a simple once-over. Implying? that there is some common sense caution involved in picking up hitchhikers.
