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That’s like saying smoking is not hazardous to your health, getting cancer is. Jumping off a building is not hazardous to your health, hitting the ground is.
by jannyfer 4y ago
That’s like saying smoking is not hazardous to your health, getting cancer is.
Jumping off a building is not hazardous to your health, hitting the ground is.
- lr4444lr 4y agoSmoking is the intake of carcinogens, a direct health risk. Jumping off a building is the result of unhealthy depression, i.e. a symptomatic behavior. A vehicular accident as a driver is not a direct cause of driving any more than a pedestrian accident by a vehicle is the direct cause of walking.
- skeeter2020 4y agoYou seem confident that you can categorize any activity. what about: strolling along a pathway, hiking in the footlhills, scrambling a mountain, ice climbing, base jumping? At what level the rock climbing rating system do we inflect from indirect to direct risk?
- lr4444lr 4y agoAssuming arguendo that you're not talking about repetitive stress injuries to the body or brain from overdoing physical or stressful activity, and just the acute harm from accidents, they're pretty much the same as driving. The correlation to accidents does not mean the activity is dangerous: it's the accident that's dangerous. I object to the conflation of quantitative risk of experiencing an incidental event with the qualitative risk posed by a voluntary event.