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Why does it matter how many have died in car accidents? Are we saying that we don’t want to solve murders until their numbers match car deaths?
by kenjackson 7y ago
Why does it matter how many have died in car accidents? Are we saying that we don’t want to solve murders until their numbers match car deaths?
- dsfyu404ed 7y ago>Why does it matter how many have died in car accidents? Perspective. How many people do you know. How many people do you know who died in car accidents. For most people that number is zero or one, maybe two. The average person gets in a car accident like once every 17yr (forget where I heard that) and fatal accidents are a tiny, tiny subset of that. They really are rare compared to how many people are in the US and how much driving those people do. Murders are far, far more rare than car accidents, practically nonexistent for people who don't make their living in the drug trade. The point is that they are statistically very rare events overall so increasing the risk of a big problem in the long term (by throwing away our restrictions on what government can and can't do to "find criminals") in order so solve a really tiny one doesn't seem wise.
- kragen 7y agoBy contrast, I know a number of people who have been raped by the police or whose family members have been murdered by the police. People in the US think that can't happen there. They are delusional.