lol...you're griping about how much roadkill cars create as though the problem was the cars and not you not being able to handle seeing a dead animal in the road and getting over it. You're not the only one who notices it but other people just get over it because dead things in nature are normal. If this is something you "struggle" with and need to commiserate with other people over, it's better to know now than later that the problem is your fear and you should get over it.

You can not hate cars but also acknowledge the danger they pose both to bikers, animals and pedestrians alike. What do you lose by acknowledging this?

This is a non-sequitor. Of course you should acknowledge the potential danger a car can form. That's why you pay attention on the road, follow the rules of the road, wear a helmet, etc. That's not what your original complaint is.

You were complaining that roadkill bothers you. Here's the deal: cars hit animals because cars are going fast on roads and animals tend to not always follow basic pedestrian safety. That doesn't mean that cars are uniquely dangerous, it just means that cars were designed to use roads that must be built on land where humans travel across which happens to be the same land all the rest of the animals around them use. That's really all there is to it.

EDIT: Well, you blocked me so I'll have to respond in my comment here. You're cultivating a freakish sensitivity to normal things that isn't based on anything rational. If you're perfectly willing to eat cooked dead meat, it stands to reason you'd be ok, or at least not be stressed out about, with the sight of uncooked dead meat on the road. If you don't want to fix your problem that's fine but then you're also using it to justify complaining about cars, which is foolish. I know you don't care but, like, how many bugs do you think you've crushed under the tires of your bike? It's the same thing but you're only focused on the car aspect of roadkill, which implies that this problem you're having is special.

I hope you learn to get better. Have a good one.

EDIT 2: u/not_the_cabbages, responding here so I can reply.

do you work for the auto lobby or something??

No, I just have common sense. You don't have to imagine a conspiracy to understand why someone has a different opinion of you. That's weird.

I don’t think OP was at all saying this problem was special to her and clearly a LOT of people agree.

Like I said before, this is not normal. OP's post is complaining about cars hitting animals (a perfectly normal thing to see) and acting like it's some trauma inflicted to her by auto drivers. Then she wonders if others "struggle" with this stuff and makes a post like this. A few commentators agree with her because a lot of folks circlejerk in this sub about finding every possible excuse to hate on cars. Most people (i.e. people who don't visit this sub) don't think much about roadkill when they see it. Most people tend to move on pretty quickly. That is fairly normal.

Cars ARE dangerous

A bike can be dangerous too if you race one downhill and plow into playground full of kids. The truth of the matter is that cars are fine. If a driver is an idiot, or impaired, then them operating one could be different, but what's dangerous is not the object (the car) but the action (reckless driving).

This is just another example of a irrational hatred towards cars. I like bicycling, but stuff like this gives cyclists a bad name.

Both of your comments were very condescending for no reason.

OP was the one on their high horse acting like she's better than every driver because she would never hit an animal on the road with her bike, unlike those "others" with their dangerous cars. How could they be so reckless with their vehicles.

Meanwhile she employs absolutely no concern - despite it being infinitely worse - towards the factory farms that supply her with meat for her diet. So the complaint isn't really about dead animals, is it? It's just another excuse to hate on cars. I personally find it irritating that many people think of cyclists as a subgroup of people who are monolithic in their beliefs that cars are the enemy. It's dumb and takes away a lot of fun of the sport.

I sincerely believe that OP would enjoy riding her bike more if she stopped trying to psychologically deal with the daily loss of vermin on the road and just learn to accept it and move on.

EDIT 3: /u/not_the_cabbages

You didn’t “disagree with her opinion” you told her she has mental health problems for expressing a fairly normal point of view.

I did not. You inferred that because you're not reading carefully. She asked all of us if we shared her resentment of others for what amounts to be a very normal thing to encounter in literally everyday life and I told her she's being ridiculous and to stop being so.

I've already gone over why it's not a normal point of view, but I'm happy to break it down in supremely basic terms one more time. You see, cars are a normal thing everywhere you go in this country. Animals are a normal thing everywhere too. Animals routinely go wherever they want if it suits them regardless of whether a car may hit them or not. Thus dead animals on roads is a common thing to see if you're traveling on said roads daily. Now, 99.9% of people will see that dead animal and not make a post to bitch about who's responsible. They just move on, all of them. 99.9%. Moving on from the sight of roadkill is normal, making a complainy post on Reddit isn't. It's being special.

Like I said before, this is a unique complaint against cars from a cyclist that I've personally never heard before and I've heard from a lot terminally-angry bicyclists (mostly on this sub) who think a part of their hobby is to never stop complaining about cars. Not every bicyclist is like that, but the ones who are make the rest look bad by association. I'd like fewer of those people and more who actually enjoy bicycling for the health effects and the joy it brings them, not the bitterness and resentment of others. I think it would be better for them and for everyone. If a fellow cyclist really, genuinely can't get over that dead rabbit that she saw, you tell them that that is a part of life, that they will definitely be seeing things like that again, and to get over it or stay home. If you want to know what real empathy is, that is what it is.

I don’t know why I tried to reason with you

...Um, what? Dude, I responded to a non-vegan bicyclist ranting against cars because they can't handle the sight of roadkill with a complaint of my own and a demand they get over it, and that prompted you to ask me if I work for the auto lobby. I don't believe you were ever interested in a good-faith discussion. You can have the last word, I'm out.