I'm seriously confused at your angle on this discussion. I didn't make the following point.
It just feels like you inferred that incorrectly from my comments. Not sure how though.
You have stated people in smaller cars have a reason to be concerned with being injured by large trucks. Unless they have been hit by these large trucks on a regular basis, or people dying from the presence of large trucks is a credible epidemic, than that concern is groundless and based purely on emotional immaturity and insecurity.
Why would someone who has been driving a Geo or Yaris for 30 years and never been in a collision with the thousands of monster trucks on the road have any reason to be concerned, other than hyped up blown out of proportion fear mongering instigated by a third party?
My angle in this discussion is preservation of liberties; eg: letting people do what they want as long as they don't harm anyone else, and holding *individuals* accountable for when they do. A person driving a lifted trucks takes on additional responsibility in that he may have to drive more carefully or lose control and injure someone and face increased risk of liability and prosecution over someone who doesn't lift their truck. I don't care for the kinds of trucks shown in this thread. But I don't have a problem with them on the road either, even if I find some of them to be disagreeable. I am not intimidated by them (more concerned with them slinging rocks if they don't have flaps actually) and if I encounter someone being a retard in one, I treat them the same as any other retard driver I worry could hit me: I don't remain around them, whether it means allowing them to pass and keeping my distance until one of us turns and never has to see each other again, or passing them.
Some people wish to trade liberty for perceived safety, by outlawing things that other people enjoy. I wish to live and let live so that others might do the same for me. Some people want to ban lifted trucks or smoking on private property. While these do not concern me, I still stand up against it. Because there are also people who want to outlaw guns, sports cars, gas guzzlers, engines bigger than 4 cylinders, cars that get less than 30 mpg, video games, big screen tvs, houses that are "too big", dark paint on vehicles that is "energy inefficient" or any of the things that DO concern me.
You could also flip it the other way; instead of the driver of a small car wanting to ban trucks, how about truck drivers wanting to ban cheap small unsafe cars that are hard to see and can't stand up to a collision with any vehicle bigger than itself and use their own inadequacies to restrict what other people can drive in a lowest common denominator fashion? How fair is it for a Geo driver, who bought that particular car by choice, to say: "no fair, every other car has to be small and unsafe and EQUAL to mine so you're not allowed to drive anything bigger or faster or with more capabilities"? You can see how such logic is extremely similar to the equality principles in such ideologies as communism. Who gets their way? The Geo driver or the 4x4 driver, and why?
I say both. I am willing to assume negligible risks in order to achieve the most liberty. All of us do to some extent; we all know that driving or flying is dangerous and that accidents happen even against your best efforts to minimize them. But nobody will ever argue to ban driving and flying period. We still take that risk and drive cars and fly planes every day because the benefits outweigh the risks, and the chances for negative consequences are in reality very small. The people who say "loss of liberty is worth it if it saves just 1 life" are hypocrites. Every time you get on a plane to fly somewhere, you are acknowledging that it was worth the deaths of the thousands of people who have died in plane crashes so that you could get to your trivial destination a few hours faster.
And if liberty and freedom to do your own thing and live your own life isn't one of those benefits worth an accident here and there, I don't know what is. We can't be herded around in bubbles by government, because guess what, there will still be accidents, only you won't have anything to show for them.