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That's a very narrow view of things.
There are plenty if trains and buses where I'm from, and they still don't cover enough land area, let alone come along often enough and go largely in the direction I need to go to be useful.
Cars are about freedom and convenience. Being anti social is a secondary choice, and a perk.
Public Transport takes twice as long to get anywhere for me (and I live fairly close to both trains and buses), and motorcycles are way more dangerous, and can't really carry anything except yourself. Cars are a happy medium between the two, which is why people use them.
Depends where you live. If you live in the countryside in ireland, the public transport is severely lacking. A 20 minute drive requires you to take probably 2 hours of public transport.
Edit: After cycling for about... an hour to the train station, so probably 3 hours total
There are always going to be edge cases where personal vehicles make sense, but no serious proponent of better public transport is ever going to propose an outright ban on private vehicular use.
The fact is the majority of people in the world live in urban areas, where there shouldn't be the excuse of "oh I live hours away from the nearest station and too few people to justify adding a bus route."
No, I literally just want to be able to go somewhere when the trains aren't running. You can try and put words in detractors' mouths all you want but it's clear you'll only jam them full of lies.