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Let's put this another relatable way. Despite rare cases of aircraft disasters, the benefit-risk assessment for air travel shows a favourable balance for all a
by laxmin 5y ago
Let's put this another relatable way.
Despite rare cases of aircraft disasters, the benefit-risk assessment for air travel shows a favourable balance for all age and sex groups; therefore, air travel is recommended for everyone ≥12 years of age
When this comes to travel by car/road, the risk just shoots up many fold, yet nobody bats an eyelid to use cars, sometimes multiple times a day.
- myrryr 5y agoRight, but if we had an injection which fixed the car death rate, we damn well would take it.
- rsynnott 5y agoI mean, we _do_; not traveling by car. And yet people who could take a bus/train, or just _walk_, feasibly, often do take a car. The risk of death from any given car journey vs the inconvenience just isn't high enough that this is a significant factor for most people. (Though, people who take cars where they could walk are missing a trick here; in the long run the risks of this sort of sedentary lifestyle are much more of a risk than that of car accidents.)
- ChrisLomont 5y agoIf cars killed 800,000 people over the past few years and getting a shot vastly reduced the death people would get that shot without all the irrational resistance this shot has generated.