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To address your comment another way, the majority of drunk drivers make it home safely, but drunk driving is a bad pattern that leads to bad outcomes. It does n
by dionidium 6y ago
To address your comment another way, the majority of drunk drivers make it home safely, but drunk driving is a bad pattern that leads to bad outcomes. It does no good to point out that most drunk drivers actually make it home just fine (and it's certainly not fallacious to warn others that drunk driving leads to negative outcomes, even if it actually usually doesn't).
The belief that one is fighting evil is a standard negative pattern in human behavior. One should watch out for it, even if it sometimes works out ok, because when it doesn't you just crossed the center line and killed a family of four on their way to grandma's.
- BeetleB 6y agoThe difference, though, is that there is little good you can say about drunk drivers. There are no known positive outcomes of driving while drunk. However, plenty of good does come out of people striving to fight evil. Trivial examples are having a justice system (even with all its down sides).
- dionidium 6y agoI know HN hates joke responses, but it's late in this thread and nobody is paying attention anyway, so what the hell :) https://twitter.com/dril/status/464802196060917762?lang=en https://twitter.com/dril/status/464802196060917762?lang=en