Life is Precious. . .

I was almost in a serious car accident.

I was waiting to turn onto another street and there was a car coming at me from behind at approximately 50 MPH.

He then swerved out of the way at the last second missing my car by about 6 inches, and did this all while cutting off a car in the lane that he switched to.

Why do people drive like this? Do they not understand that they are driving dangerous weapons that have the ability to kill people including themselves?

What very interesting about cars is that they are the first form of transportation that the driver has complete control over. If you're riding a horse, you can force the horse to go where you want it to, and the way to persuade the horse to do this is by causing it pain. If the desire to go in another direction overrides the pain it is receiving the driver can do nothing about it.

If they were controlling a ship, they still don't have full control over what's going on, they are steering by using the currents that the water is taking them. If a hurricane comes along, they can't pull over to the side of the road and wait for it to pass, they have in effect completely lost control of their ship.

Now it is possible to lose control of a car but usually the cause is reckless driving, and the fact that someone is choosing to put the lives of both themselves as well as any passengers they have or other drivers says a lot about the person's view of the preciousness of human life.

In the states it is required to take a driver's ed course that supposedly educates you about how to safely control a vehicle, but I do not know what the requirements are in Israel. I do know that car accidents are, unfortunately, the cause of more deaths then terrorist attacks, and I think that some thought has to be put into teaching this as a way of preserving the preciousness of human life