Ween, I was just being a smartass.
Well said! Two wrongs never make a right.
It's always encouraging to see moral reasoning evolve beyond the pre-school level.
What has yet to be determined is whether people who park like half-wits are doing so because they do lack the mental faculty necessary to drive better than a conditioned chimp, or if they simply have no regard for the rest of the million drivers with whom they share the road. The latter deserves whatever happens to them, but if a person is too dumb to park right, then keying their car will accomplish nothing in the way of justice. All it will do is make them feel like they're the victim, which ultimately will lead them to a sense of satisfaction in being the better person (aren't all victims superior to their transgressors?) Not exactly the desired effect. The other type may convince themselves of the same, but that's not important. What is important is that they got what they deserved.
Still, there's no way to tell. Keying really only helps to vent spite, which may temporarily ease frustration, but would put the keyer completely in the wrong if the parker was innocent (rare as that may be; ignorance is a weak excuse).
If someone honestly wished to right the situation, they would wait for the person to return to their car and confront them. In that sense, anonymous retaliation is kind of a b____ move, a characteristic shared by the act of casting aspersions over an entire thread, without actually naming those whose posts were worthy of reproach (and why). The difference is that there is far greater risk in keying a car, and in that regard, takes a greater degree of courage. Entering a thread only to suggest that some of the posters have issues is cowardly by comparison, something I never figured BadMoon for. Lonnie never struck me as one either, so I can only imagine that they were trying to keep the peace while making it clear that they didn't approve. However, that's just an assumption (educated though it may be). Can't really tell unless they say otherwise. (How about you carbo? I don't know you particularly well.)
Myself, I've never keyed a car, nor has the thought ever crossed my mind. There was a sub-zero morning last winter when I was unable to park close to the door at Wal-Mart because someone with a suped up Honda parked diagonally across two parking spaces. So I spit on their windshield (I imagine it froze there). What of it?
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