• LudwigVonPseudonym@lemmy.world
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    18 days ago

    Okay, I love the warm “feel good” vibe but this post is giving some terrible advice: Never, ever, EVER loan anyone your car. Ever.

    Even if you can afford a brand-new car and don’t have to worry about the car being wrecked, if the person you loaned the car to gets in to a fatal accident and kills another driver, you WILL be dragged in to the mess.

    It’s just not worth the risk. Never loan your car to anyone, for any reason.

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        17 days ago

        It’s not a “car fetishisation” thing, it’s a “this car cost me literally thousands of dollars and I can’t just go buy another one willy nilly if some idiot wrecks it” thing.

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            17 days ago

            And if one of your buddies ends up killing someone in an auto accident while using your car, I guarantee you’re going to feel much worse than an idiot, insurance be damned.

            That’s okay, you can tell the dead person’s family members that you definitely never lend your car to idiots. I’m sure they’ll understand.

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                17 days ago

                this is an insane take and I am not going to continue this “discussion”

                ^ Translation from Clueless to English: “I do not understand how deadly motor vehicles can be, and I’m fortunate enough to have never been in a car accident.”

                Sweetheart, the only thing here that’s ‘insane’ is that you don’t realize that a car can easily kill someone. Go take a driver’s ed course, you desperately need one.