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The most American thing in the world is to worry about the 4 deaths per year caused by the faults in that car while ignoring the other 40,000 deaths a year caus
by thrown_22 4y ago
The most American thing in the world is to worry about the 4 deaths per year caused by the faults in that car while ignoring the other 40,000 deaths a year caused by cars in general.
- Tsiklon 4y agoI’m not American, this is whataboutery and absurd to argue, everyone wants safer roads. The example of the Pinto is famous worldwide; famous for the disgusting disregard Ford had for it’s own customers. That it would rather send its own customers to a painful death than have the decency to pay to fix the fault it was aware of, is abhorrent. This behaviour resulted in a known unsafe product remaining on sale long after the fault was discovered - the people who died were not qualified to understand the additional risk the car had to it’s occupants.
- thrown_22 4y agoA product which when it works as expected kills orders of magnitude more people than the faulty version. This is the definition of putting a band aid on a decapitation.