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>I'm fine with people dying during construction _if_ we foresee the deaths. Because that's other people dying. >What I'm not fine with is killing people with
by Cipater 4y ago
>I'm fine with people dying during construction _if_ we foresee the deaths.
Because that's other people dying.
>What I'm not fine with is killing people with lead/arsenic/asbestos/plastics because we didn't put new tech through it's paces before we deployed it en-mass.
Because this affects you.
- thrown_22 4y ago>Because that's other people dying. My first job out of high school was on an old school oil rig: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Jn2BU4eyVHQ https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Jn2BU4eyVHQ What worried me about it wasn't the fact I could lose a hand, but that more than half the chemicals we were getting smeared in daily weren't properly tested for their long term effects on humans.
- fluoridation 4y agoThe distinction you're trying to draw seems unclear to me. Why is bodily harm from chemicals worse than bodily harm from mechanical forces?
- cactacea 4y agoWorse isn't the distinction, clarity of danger is. If your hands didn't get crushed at work that day then you can stop worrying about your hands when you go home. Not the case with whatever he was swimming in.