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You do realize if everyone drove giant vehicles, we'd be back to square 1 right? Then what, put children in semis?
by silisili 4y ago
You do realize if everyone drove giant vehicles, we'd be back to square 1 right? Then what, put children in semis?
- ldjkfkdsjnv 4y agoYeah I realize that, but its optimal for me right now, and thats how capitalism works
- paulryanrogers 4y agoThat's how capitalism fails us all.
- yibg 4y agoIt's also how selfishness works.
- briandear 4y agoIt’s selfish to want to protect yourself? I guess it literally is selfish. But I’m not increasing my actual risk for some hypothetical reduction of everyone else’s risk. Semis, buses, industrial vehicles all share the same road I’m on, so why would I shrink my vehicle? And isn’t it selfish for people to insist on riding their bicycles on the roads? Why is their willingness to increase their own risk my problem? I’m not asking them to ride bikes. They make that choice. By the way, there is about 12k drunk driving deaths each year about about 850 cycling-auto deaths each year. Let ban alcohol if we really cared about safety.
- pluc 4y agoDrinking and driving is banned.
- elenaferrantes 4y agoWow, as others said I can’t tell if you are serious or not. By this line of reasoning there is also the following. It’s optimal for me right now to : - answer that phone call in the subway. - Steal that item. - Play loud music at 2am. - fart in the elevator. And so on It’s called antisocial behaviour.
- briandear 4y agoA Suburban vs Suburban is still safer than Kia vs Kia. And what about Kia vs Semi? Or Kia vs delivery truck? Or Kia vs city bus? If we really cared about fatalities, then banning alcohol should be on the table, statistically speaking. 30% of all traffic deaths involve alcohol.
- foxes 4y agoAlternatively we also all drive at 40km/h or less in cities and urban areas, accidents much less likely to be fatal.
- tomjakubowski 4y agoI haven't been able to find any data by Google or Wikipedia - what portion of traffic deaths were caused by someone else drinking and driving?
- toast0 4y agoBanning alcohol may be a good idea, but it seems infeasible. Last time the US tried it, it didn't go well.
- seer-zig 4y agoThe way the US went about it is just one data point. In Islam, we have successfully minimized drinking to an extremely large extent.
- Infinitesimus 4y agoThat is true. Islam has had many more centuries of practice (and quite a few Muslims drink depending on how strict they are ).
- seer-zig 4y agoYes, but you can also read about how when the prohibition was revealed, people obeyed without delay. It has been documented that people immediately broke their wine containers and poured them in the streets of Madinah, such that it flowed through them.