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Driving a car makes you more likely to kill or injure somebody than walking or staying home. Is it immoral for anybody to drive a car at all? We all take on cu

Driving a car makes you more likely to kill or injure somebody than walking or staying home. Is it immoral for anybody to drive a car at all? We all take on culpability for certain harms to others. It’s just a question of what as a society we are willing to accept. I don’t think this is an issue of society “overlooking” the morality of this specifically. It’s just that people have a lot of problems to worry about, and the crash safety of large vehicles isn’t high on the list.

NextHendrix 3y ago
Not immoral, just more culpable. Is it immoral not to kill oneself as being alive makes one more likely to kill someone?
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jimmytidey 3y ago
Yes, driving a car makes you morally culpable for the harms it does. If you ranked the harms you are likely to cause, driving a car would be very near the top of the list. You are exhibiting an aspect of the myopia the article is highlighting.
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- brokencode 3y ago
  I guess what bothers me about this wording of how people are “overlooking moral culpability”, even if it’s accurate, is that it sounds very accusatory. Like “How could you buy an SUV? Don’t you care about the kids you’re bound to run over?” This particularly stings when a person thinks they are doing something normal like buying a car large enough to meet their family’s needs. Determining the moral culpability of actions and complaining about it is one thing. And it’s by far the easy part. The harder and more important part is to craft a message that doesn’t sound like an attack on a person’s morality.
gobdovan 3y ago
It's more of a creeping normality [0] problem. Some cars get larger and people get accustomed to it, so it's hard to notice. Someone needs to point it out and from the reaction to this post, it seems that people are interested once it's pointed out to them. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creeping_normality https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creeping_normality

NextHendrix 3y ago

Not immoral, just more culpable. Is it immoral not to kill oneself as being alive makes one more likely to kill someone?

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jimmytidey 3y ago

Yes, driving a car makes you morally culpable for the harms it does. If you ranked the harms you are likely to cause, driving a car would be very near the top of the list. You are exhibiting an aspect of the myopia the article is highlighting.

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brokencode 3y ago
I guess what bothers me about this wording of how people are “overlooking moral culpability”, even if it’s accurate, is that it sounds very accusatory. Like “How could you buy an SUV? Don’t you care about the kids you’re bound to run over?” This particularly stings when a person thinks they are doing something normal like buying a car large enough to meet their family’s needs. Determining the moral culpability of actions and complaining about it is one thing. And it’s by far the easy part. The harder and more important part is to craft a message that doesn’t sound like an attack on a person’s morality.

gobdovan 3y ago

It's more of a creeping normality [0] problem. Some cars get larger and people get accustomed to it, so it's hard to notice. Someone needs to point it out and from the reaction to this post, it seems that people are interested once it's pointed out to them. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creeping_normality https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creeping_normality