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The Majority Rule

I recently was fined $900 for cycling my electric bicyle on the pedestrian pavement. It was definitely the work of two portable surveillance CCTVs. So a full-month wage of doing food delivery would be gone. It felt like I worked for nothing. Of course, I was lawfully breaking the law. A law that was passed as a result of a handful of fatalities and injuries. A law that restricted my speed limit to 25km/h and consigned me to the tarmac where I scurried among the cars, the buses, the lorries. A law that made me always wonder if I would live on for another day. I guess some individuals would glee at my financial misfortune. The same people who were always eager to videocam offenses and preached about human safety. The majority voice who decided an electric cyclist's mortality was of lesser value than a pedestrian's.