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>It's basically equivalent to arguing that people wearing seat belts can die in car accidents therefore seat belts are ineffective. Worse, you can suffer an inj
by Tenoke 5y ago
>It's basically equivalent to arguing that people wearing seat belts can die in car accidents therefore seat belts are ineffective. Worse, you can suffer an injury from a seat belt so they're net harmful.
For what is worth, I remember when seatbelts were about to become mandatory in my country as a kid and people argued exactly that. They weren't feeling unsafe in the first place to want to go through the inconvenience. It took a lot of traffic cop posts and fines until people got the habit rather than a rational argument about small chances which people are bad at reasoning about.
Though in all fairness that's the same country that is at the bottom of the vaccination charts and top of the deaths charts in Europe and due to corrupt government there's an abnormal distrust in authority there.
- noduerme 5y agoThose laws only exist to generate revenue for the police. Dying in car crashes is not an infectious condition, and never constituted a public health emergency. Put another way, it's no harm to society if you go through a windshield, but you can be fined for not wearing a seatbelt... while it's measurably harmful and morally questionable to refuse a vaccine, and no one will ever fine you for it.
- Tenoke 5y agoCar crashes do economic damage, raise health and car insurance premiums etc. It's not a health emergency but there is harm to society.