> Morally culpable, but also defensible since you’re defending yourself from others in large cars. Don’t hate the player. Hate the game. This might be morally

> Morally culpable, but also defensible since you’re defending yourself from others in large cars. Don’t hate the player. Hate the game. This might be morally defensible for players making equal trades between protection for themselves and protection for others, but at some point this is clearly no longer the case. For example, most people would agree that killing 1000 people to save your own life is bad. If players aren't even bothering with this calculating the tradeoff between more protection for themselves and less protection for others -- and I think most people who protect themselves with large cars have not done this calculation -- then yes, it's fine to cast aspersions. According to this post from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety [1] (which I think is reliable?), going from a 2023 Prius (~88 square feet) to a 2023 Toyota Sequoia (~116 square feet) reduces car driver deaths from 47 per million vehicle years to 26. This seems, uh, fairly low down on the list of interventions your median SUV-driver could take to reduce their mortality, and it's made at a cost to other people, since "light trucks" (like SUVs, trucks, and vans) increase pedestrian fatalities by somewhere north of 50% [2, third page]. At some point, you're just being lazy, which you have a right to do, but I don't think it's particularly defensible. [1] https://www.iihs.org/topics/vehicle-size-and-weight https://www.iihs.org/topics/vehicle-size-and-weight [2] https://trforum.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/138.pdf https://trforum.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/138.pdf