In practice, is offensive driving safer than defensive driving?

Defensive driver - avoids accidents

Offensive driver - causes accidents, often seen in rear view mirror

Drive defensive, chill out, relax, if they cut in, just let them, ease off on the gas and recreate your safety zone. Don't let the others get to you.

Defensive doesn't mean submissive, sometimes you need to block to be defensive.

This is way too long. One problem with your thesis is you are making blanket assumptions, and this cannot be. Sexuality is a complex issue and you cannot say that all people are alike. And even if it were true that all men have had fantasies about being with men, it doesn't mean it's an arousing fantasy. I can fantasize once about murdering my mom, it doesn't give me the mindset of a murderer. I can fantasize about being an astronaut, it doesn't make it my career path. In neither case am I any more interested in pursuing either scenario, the thought does not predicate the action nor the interest. So I, as a gay man, may fantasize about a woman, but there's no arousal nor do I have an interest in pursuing it, it is just a thought. According to your thesis the thought predicates the action or the decision to act, and that is the false assumption. As for people coming off "far far more gay", that's a number of factors. Societal, social, and natural. It's like asking why the moon looks like it does. First you must explain how it was formed, then its composition and lack of atmosphere, then meteor hits and so forth to give an understanding of it. This is far more simple with the moon than the human psyche. And big thing is that it doesn't matter why it is so, we merely have to accept it as so. Also it is good to realize the typical "gay" behavior isn't solely evident in gays but also in heterosexuals. I have met effeminate heterosexuals and masculine gay men, they're not directly tied. Also most gay men you cannot tell they are gay, so keep that in mind. Effeminacy is in the minority amongst homosexuals, much like masculinity is in the minority amongst lesbians. For some of your theory you should look up the Kinsey scale which suggests that most people are bisexual with gays and straights being in the minority on either end of the scale. It's more elegant than your blanket assumption that everyone is a little gay.

I don't think you are necessarily driving defensively. You can still be a defensive driver and not allow people to change lane all the time.

I'm both a biker and a driver, and I've learned through experience that you can still dominate your road position in such a way as to exert a certain amount of control over what the drivers around you do. I may not want someone to cut me off, so I may position my vehicle in such a way that they can clearly see me, understand that I've not allowed them a space to pull across into and maintain safe distances between myself and those around me. I guess you could call it being aggressively defensive.

well you might be safer among defensive drivers, but what are you gonna do when you come across other offensive drivers?

have you ever seen a head on collision at an intersection, and asked the drivers how it happened?? When one guy is turning left the other one is going straight, all it takes to avoid an accident is just for one of them to stop, but they are both offensive so one says, "the light is yellow, i am in the intersection, that guy is gonna stop and let me through", but the other guy says "i have the right of way and i am running this yellow light cause i dont wanna wait."

good luck

Baloney. Offensive drivers are accidents waiting to happen, and they actually don't have as many accidents as they should because defensive drivers save their butts. That can only happen so long, and the offensive driver hits a vehicle, a building, a pole, a bicyclist, or a pedestrian.

I believe that a defensive driver is a better driver all-around...

Well if you can afford the traffic tickets and driving ed classes you'll have to take constantly then I guess so

Amazed that I found this question already answered! it is like you read my mind!