This thread started very sensibly, with a perfectly reasonable complaint about adults cycling on the pavement, a practice that is selfish, unnecessary and not infrequently dangerous. Several other pedestrians then supported what I said.
Then the cyclists started posting comments. Oh, dear...
They said that we were criticising all cyclists. Nobody had done so.
Now we are told that the thread was "stupid". The thread was a response to a particular problem. Stop cycling on the pavement and we won't post threads about it. How arrogant to say that we are not entitled to object to that behviour.
We are told to keep a sense of perspective etc etc, lots of other problems etc etc. But the sense of perspective was lost when the cyclists started saying that they were all being criticised.
And we're told that "the majority of cyclists" ride on the road. Whoever said otherwise? Read before you post.
Cycling on the pavment is a problem. It is an increasing problem. And we are fully entitled to object to it. There's nothing remotely self-righteous about that. That term does, however, describe those who believe that cycling is so healthy and planet-saving that cyclists must be considered above criticism.
If you can't accept valid criticism, you just alienate people all the more, and you accelerate the process whereby more and more people start asking why exactly it is that cyclists can take to the roads, untrained, unlicenced and uninsured.