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Getting into a car isn't the dangerous part where I live, it's being near the road. It's safer to be in a car, near the road, than on foot or on bicycle.
by cyberbanjo 4y ago
Getting into a car isn't the dangerous part where I live, it's being near the road. It's safer to be in a car, near the road, than on foot or on bicycle.
- munk-a 4y agoBoth actions are dangerous - and it's the presence of cars that makes it dangerous. In the US 42,915 lives were lost in automobile crashes[1] in 2021. 1. https://www.nhtsa.gov/press-releases/early-estimate-2021-traffic-fatalities https://www.nhtsa.gov/press-releases/early-estimate-2021-tra...
- logicalmonster 4y agoYou and the poster you're responding to seem to be using a different definition of the word dangerous: the one above seems to be using more of the connotation of the word (point out that there's an acceptable level of risk involved with cars) and you're using the denotation (pointing out that people do die in cars). To be clear, virtually every human activity is technically dangerous and there's a non-zero risk in almost any human activity. By the dictionary definition, owning a pool is technically dangerous because people drown and get hurt all of the time. Hell, a bucket causes a non-zero number of drowning deaths. People can die from blender accidents or shitting too hard or swallowing quarters or tripping to death on a power cord. Everything is technically dangerous.