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When I'm walking down the street I'm playing Russian roulette? You are either completely numerically illiterate or so motivated by whatever ideology you're comi
by oneloop 10y ago
When I'm walking down the street I'm playing Russian roulette? You are either completely numerically illiterate or so motivated by whatever ideology you're coming from that you'd go as far as uncritically parrot this such a laughable false equivalence.
Lets consider just traffic-related accidents for simplicity. About 17 deaths per 100,000 people per year worldwide. Assuming that a person "walks down the street" twice a day, that's means that when you walk down the street the probability that you'll die is 2.5*10^(-7). By comparison the probability of dying from Russian roulette is between 1/6 and 1/2, depending the rules you're playing by. You've just made a mistake as big as 6 orders of magnitude. This alone should get you banned from HN.
- Daviey 10y agoYou asked if you were a bad person for not having sympathy for a death.. I believe this to be true. I totally agree that walking down the street doesn't carry the same magnitude of risk, but there is measured risk there. Just because someone is participating in an activity which carries more risk than you consider acceptable, doesn't mean we shouldn't sympathise for their death. My analogies were pointing out other activities, which also carry risk... and you've latched onto the one which obviously has the least risk. The point is, any activity has a calculated risk. You made the identical mistake.. by your own analysis, playing Russian roulette 6 consecutive rounds would guarantee a fatality... However, just 3 off the top of my head (for the avoidance of doubt, these people have died 0 times): - Miles Daisher has over 4000 base jumps. - Chris McDougall has over 3000. - Dan Schilling did over 200 in one day back in 2006. Talking of banning, If you think that my statement broke the rules of HN, then I ask that you make a complaint against me.