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The logic is sound. You can save essentially every single person who will die in a traffic accident by banning cars. That’s likely a hundred or two people a ye
by beagle3 5y ago
The logic is sound.
You can save essentially every single person who will die in a traffic accident by banning cars. That’s likely a hundred or two people a year just in Missouri.
There’s a cost and a benefit, and most people would say that - no, the benefit of 100-200 people per year is not worth the cost of banning cars. But if it was 200,000/year, they would likely say yes.
The costs of masks are small but not zero - there’s pollution, there’s bacterial infections (masks that aren’t replaced every few hours are Petri dishes), there’s cognitive delay for babies, there’s horrible experience for the hearing impaired lip readers.
You may believe the cost/benefit is worth it, someone else will disagree.
But it always comes down to just that - a cost benefit analysis.
- bluGill 5y agoI've wanted to ban cars for that reason for years, I know it isn't realistic, but I still want to. I favor more drivers training. I favor limiting the drivers ability to adjust the radio. I favor more/better transit. If self driving cars ever become real I'll favor them (right now they have enough limits as to not count).
- NoGravitas 5y ago> You can save essentially every single person who will die in a traffic accident by banning cars. This, but unironically. (This post brought to you by Train Gang.)
- onion2k 5y agoThe costs of masks are small but not zero - there’s pollution, there’s bacterial infections (masks that aren’t replaced every few hours are Petri dishes), there’s cognitive delay for babies, there’s horrible experience for the hearing impaired lip readers. If your reasoning for refusing to wear a mask when you go to Walmart is "What if a lip-reader can't tell what I'm saying?!" then I think you might be a ... well, I won't put the word here because some people don't like it, but it begins with C.
- beagle3 5y agoIf that’s what you read into my post, all I can say is, we’ll, not sure what I can say cause you’ll likely read it wrong too.