Quote Originally Posted by GLC1968 View Post
I'm not talking about intending to insult anyone. This thread is about UNintentionally insulting people, right? My comment was that there are certain people whom I don't really care if I accidentally insult them if I have a point to make.

If someone does something as a cyclist that is dangerous or stupid, it reflects on all of us. I don't care how much experience they have, if I have opportunity to say something about it, I will. I frankly don't care if what I say insults them, they need to be told. Sorry if that offends people, that's how I feel.

(this is why I put insult in quotes in my previous post - my intention wouldn't be to insult, it would be to inform)

I'm sorry but just because you see someone do something stupid, you can't assume intent or lack of knowledge -- they might have done something thoughtlessly or made a split-second decision and then realized that they made a mistake. This happens to me from time to time and I do my best to learn from it. It's ironic that you don't want me to make assumptions based on what I see when I look at you, but you think it's okay for you to make assumptions based on what you see when you look at someone else.

And I think I will never ever talk to strangers on a bike ride again because no matter how friendly I genuinely am trying to be, I apparently need to assume that the person will think my intent was to insult them.