Those arent shoulders , those are boulders ! !!<| sep |> It ' s pretty unstable , yeah . <| sep |> To minimize damage presumably with the driver in mind . An object in motion wishes to stay in motion . This to me looks as though it ' s designed to slow it down gradually thus , ideally , reducing the sudden stop on the driver . I agree though , it looks stupid <| sep |> I ' m gonna encourage you until it fuckin ' hurts , nerd <| sep |> I only opened this link to say the same thing <| sep |> So he basically couldn ' t find any difference between a pig and a human . Or at least between a pig and a mentally challenged human . That doesn ' t seem quite right . I mean , I think it goes into the territory of a more complicated question that is the one of self awareness . We have a conscience and an ability to reason and so do most mentally challenged individuals . Now , wether we can actually define self awareness with precision , I ' m not so sure . But I do think that we can recognize it , be it in another life form , say an alien , or even in an AI . Thats ' s why we consider brain dead people as , well , dead . Even if their hearts are still beating and whatnot , and we find it ok to let them die even in situations when we would still be trying to save another person .