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This assumes a binary world of safe and unsafe. If jumping off tall bridges provided a protective effect against death from lightning strikes, by the same reaso
by teeray 5y ago
This assumes a binary world of safe and unsafe. If jumping off tall bridges provided a protective effect against death from lightning strikes, by the same reasoning we should jump off the bridge because nothing is safe.
Safety is probability-based and thus continuous. We can reason about one action being less unsafe than something else, so the analysis is still relevant.
- perl4ever 5y ago>This assumes a binary world of safe and unsafe I replied to a comment that ended with "we are not really safe". That is not a quantitative statement. It seems indicative of a binary view to me, the comment about a cost-benefit analysis notwithstanding.