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SUVs are immoral -- one of my favorite philosophy papers: Vehicles and Crashes: Why is this Moral Issue Overlooked? by Douglas Husak https://www.jstor.org/sta

• wyager 4y ago
  > First and most obviously, personal vehicles cause tremendous amounts of harm. Large vehicles are safer for vehicle-on-vehicle or vehicle-on-object crashes, and vehicle-on-pedestrian crashes are a very small fraction of total fatal crashes. The core objection of this blog post^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H paper is nonsense. I refuse to take seriously anyone who talks about "moral issues" like cars on purely qualitative, opinion-based grounds. When you're talking about hundreds of millions of people, you need to use statistics, and that is a necessary but insufficient condition for you to be taken seriously (as most papers of this type don't use statistics correctly).