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> we have come to culturally "accept" a certain number of fatalities each year in commonplace activities, like walking down the street, using a bathtub, driving
by forapurpose 8y ago
> we have come to culturally "accept" a certain number of fatalities each year in commonplace activities, like walking down the street, using a bathtub, driving a car, etc.
I disagree; there are ongoing, successful efforts to make driving, walking down the street (see Vision Zero for example), and many more activities safer. We haven't accepted the risk levels at all.
- jdminhbg 8y ago> I disagree; there are ongoing, successful efforts to make driving, walking down the street (see Vision Zero for example), and many more activities safer. We haven't accepted the risk levels at all. But the existence of awareness campaigns proves the point: Someone has to connect the dots on the statistics and then advocate to get people to care. Nobody needs to advocate for more coverage of spacefaring fatalities.
- forapurpose 8y ago> awareness campaigns These aren't campaigns to build awareness, but to change laws, training, etc. > Someone has to connect the dots on the statistics and then advocate to get people to care People need to know about something in order to care about it. I'm not sure what that means. > Nobody needs to advocate for more coverage of spacefaring fatalities. Right; those are sensational and get lots of coverage.