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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I will admit I have what I call mild to moderate road rage...  No one's perfect! [/quote]

Figure your issues out.  You are a danger to others on the road [/quote]
+1  Think of good behavior and self-control in the car as an extension of the rules of the road.  Rules make a complicated moving system work and by extension, keep more people moving faster and more safely.  "Honking at people doing dumb things" is distracting to everyone around you (the driver you're honking at, the other drivers, and to you too).  It's the community-level version of yelling at someone.  It disrupts the system.  That's why it's so selfish.  [/quote]

NP here.

The above is 100% incorrect.  Failing to honk at people who violate the rules is being complicit in their rudeness and anti-social behavior.  How will we ever discourage rude/dangerous driving if we don't express our disapproval to the perpetrators?

Failing to honk (when another party is engaging in misconduct) is the moral equivalent of staying silent when you hear someone tell an inappropriate joke.  You're complicit.

I won't be part of that.  Drive like an a** in my vicinity and I'll let you know.[/quote]

I'm the original 'mild road rage' poster and this is somewhat my position.

That said, if the person in front of me is a nervous nellie (and that is usually obvious) I will usually not honk. Not because I feel any sympathy for them, personally IMO if you can't merge in a timely manner you shouldn't be driving, but because honking usually just makes them SLOWER and MORE NERVOUS which makes me more angry. So I will just fume silently in my car.

My road rage generally doesn't manifest in that much honking. I'm just super pissed off in my car. I'm more likely to honk at a fellow aggressive driver that did something dangerous or particularly douchey than I am to honk at a crappy driver driving 10 below the limit in the left lane. That slow guy is either going to just go more slow cause they're nervous or they're going to be one of the secretly ragey slow drivers who will go out of their way to flash their brights at me or actively try to not let me pass or slow way down to hurt everyone on the road. Aggressive drivers are at least predictable. [/quote]

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