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Also from Pittsburgh, and my wife lost her dad in this crash. The top comment on this thread (re: "acceptable loss"), is infuriating.

by cdolan 8y ago

cc439 8y ago
Reading both of your comments, one has to wonder if your wife and their classmate were one in the same.
- cdolan 8y ago
  Very Probable! @Kibwen what part of town was your friend from (not asking for a name on purpose I’m uninterested in sharing my wife’s name here, however easy it may be to google).
Dylan16807 8y ago
> The top comment on this thread (re: "acceptable loss"), is infuriating. Do you ever drive a car? Do you think the risk is "acceptable"? And don't get hung up on semantics, "acceptable" doesn't mean it's not terrible, it means that it's not feasible to prevent every risk with that danger:cost ratio. Especially because anything that causes a drastic reduction in flight will increase car trips and probably cause more deaths. This is of course different from someone lying about the level of risk. But some risks really are "acceptable".
- cdolan 8y ago
  Get out from behind your computer and talk to people for once.
  - Ma8ee 8y ago
    There's always a tradeoff. We could make driving much safer by enforcing drastically lower legal speed limits, much longer mandatory training for the drivers and even higher safety standars in cars. But we have chosen not to, because that would be perceived as limiting freedom, being inconvenient and cost money. But more than thirty thousand people die in car accidents every year in the US alone.
  - Dylan16807 8y ago
    It's easy to explain to people in the real world how treating life as having infinite value is actually impossible, and nobody actually does it. Also, the "acceptable" part is the statistical average. It's still a tragedy that any particular person dies. I do have sympathy for you and your wife, but we have millions of deaths per year that deserve equal respect, and we only have so much we can do to prevent each one. We should try very hard, but we can't try infinitely hard.

Also from Pittsburgh, and my wife lost her dad in this crash. The top comment on this thread (re: "acceptable loss"), is infuriating.

by cdolan 8y ago

Also from Pittsburgh, and my wife lost her dad in this crash. The top comment on this thread (re: "acceptable loss"), is infuriating.

cc439 8y ago

Reading both of your comments, one has to wonder if your wife and their classmate were one in the same.

cdolan 8y ago
Very Probable! @Kibwen what part of town was your friend from (not asking for a name on purpose I’m uninterested in sharing my wife’s name here, however easy it may be to google).

Dylan16807 8y ago

> The top comment on this thread (re: "acceptable loss"), is infuriating. Do you ever drive a car? Do you think the risk is "acceptable"? And don't get hung up on semantics, "acceptable" doesn't mean it's not terrible, it means that it's not feasible to prevent every risk with that danger:cost ratio. Especially because anything that causes a drastic reduction in flight will increase car trips and probably cause more deaths. This is of course different from someone lying about the level of risk. But some risks really are "acceptable".

cdolan 8y ago
Get out from behind your computer and talk to people for once.
- Ma8ee 8y ago
  There's always a tradeoff. We could make driving much safer by enforcing drastically lower legal speed limits, much longer mandatory training for the drivers and even higher safety standars in cars. But we have chosen not to, because that would be perceived as limiting freedom, being inconvenient and cost money. But more than thirty thousand people die in car accidents every year in the US alone.
- Dylan16807 8y ago
  It's easy to explain to people in the real world how treating life as having infinite value is actually impossible, and nobody actually does it. Also, the "acceptable" part is the statistical average. It's still a tragedy that any particular person dies. I do have sympathy for you and your wife, but we have millions of deaths per year that deserve equal respect, and we only have so much we can do to prevent each one. We should try very hard, but we can't try infinitely hard.