Road Rage Disorder?

I kid you not - one of the drug companies has invented "Road Rage Disorder" - apparently some mental problem their drug can cure you of. The technical name for it is "Intermittent Explosive Disorder" or IED for short. That's pretty funny if only because those are the letters used to describe Improvised Explosive Devices used in Iraq.
So now they've turned an everyday occurance into a disease, the drug companies can go about fixing us with drugs - of course the whole reason they want to classify it as a disease in the first place.

You know what? When some moron cuts me off without looking, or drives into the side of me, or knocks me off my motorbike, I think it's perfectly reasonable to freak out. That's not a disease. It's an entirely predictable reaction to an unnatural situation. And if the person conducting that act against me gets hurt in the process, well maybe they should have fucking looked before they tried to kill me.

Motorists don't need a pill or therapy on a psychiatrist's couch. If the experts really want to curb road rage they should try putting a proper driving education program in place. Perhaps if people knew how to drive, this would happen less often.

The ultimate blame, of course, lies in three places:
1. The car manufacturers who, far from making cars, make luxury couches on wheels where people get the mistaken impression that they're cocooned and safe, and thus their driving deteriorates as a result.
2. People's inability to take responsibility for their actions any more.
3. The lawyers who will help aforementioned people get money for doing stupid things.

So many drivers would get so much better on the road if the airbag was taken out of their steering wheel and this was put in its place:

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