Michael Moynihan: Service station laboratory exposes the selfishness of certain drivers

The collapse in western civilisation’s long-held ethical system is due to the corrosive effect of a simple mindset: the world revolves around me

'Slanting one’s car across a footpath is one of the hardy annuals in disregarding the needs of others.'

I wrote here a couple of weeks ago about the number of unqualified drivers on the roads, something that becomes glaringly obvious as soon as you sit behind the wheel of the car.

A pal was in touch with a minor refinement of that viewpoint since then.