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But the thing that got to me was his argument that "you have to treat people like small children or animals, and create conditioning, or nothing changes." I don't think my response could have been comprehensive enough to show my abhorrence of that entire idea, so I'm going to put it here instead. What I said was "I am neither a small child nor an animal, and I do not want to be treated that way." Which ended with a goalpost move; of course it's not about ME, never mind that it affects me too, when I use the same roads. It's about those terrible drivers- Thing is, I don't think they should be treated that way either. Nor children! I don't use aversive conditioning with my animals, either, so probably I am some kind of a bleeding-heart who can just be dismissed out of hand. What I thought was "have you tried actually relating to another person in your life," but here I am being polite about it. Hopefully he's not your average surveillance advocate, or we got a rough ride ahead of us.