trying to shame people into switching without taking into account these environmental variables just makes you a prick.

You’re right about how shame doesn’t work. It’s an enduring peeve of mine that you have to butter people up and manage their emotions to get them to do anything. It just feels like everyone’s a toddler that needs a shiny sticker so they won’t poison themselves. You’ll be like “smoking is bad for you and everyone around you” and they’ll be like “fuck you I’m going to smoke more now”.

However, in this case the person said they had viable transit. It was just ten minutes slower.