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Imagine Toyota makes a faulty truck, and then they issue a recall, and there's headline news about the danger this issue poses, and truck drivers all over Twitt
by tedunangst 7y ago
Imagine Toyota makes a faulty truck, and then they issue a recall, and there's headline news about the danger this issue poses, and truck drivers all over Twitter are pleading for people to fix their trucks, but you nevertheless continue driving around for 799 days without fixing it, and then your truck explodes. I know who I'm blaming.
- oconnor663 7y agoBoth points are true. Think about having giant holes in the sidewalk. On the one hand, if you walk into a giant hole in the sidewalk in broad daylight, that's pretty much your fault, and your friends will laugh at you. On the other hand, everyone understands that some people will inevitably walk into a giant hole in the sidewalk if it's there, and so we consider it negligent to dig one without putting up bright orange barriers around it. In part that's because some people are more vulnerable than others (maybe it's nighttime, maybe their eyesight isn't very good, maybe they're going fast on a bicycle), and in part that's because with a large enough group of people some of them are bound to be careless, distracted, or unlucky.