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What he's talking about isn't something they do by accident.
by simplyskeptic 3y ago
What he's talking about isn't something they do by accident.
- jiofj 3y ago[flagged]
- gruez 3y agoEvery mile of you driving causes a non-zero amount of risk of injury to other road users. The specific crash might be "accidental", but by driving you're making a conscious choice to cause harm to other people.
- phs318u 3y agoIf you take this argument to its absurd conclusion, one could argue that by merely living, I'm making a conscious choice to harm other people.
- jychang 3y ago… yes. That’s the entire point. That’s basically the plot to the TV show “The Good Place”.
- FrankoDelMar 3y agoIf you subscribe to this idea you may enjoy Schopenhauer's "On the Suffering of the World"
- FrankoDelMar 3y agoMaybe a better example is to refer to the marginal effects on mortality caused by vehicle pollution, whereby simply by driving the vehicle causes harm to others, without necessitating a direct consequence of the behavior itself (such in the case of a crash). If say, one in every 10,000 trips resulted in a crash, it would be a bit absurd to say each trip I drive results in 1/10000 of a crash, whereas emitted pollutants is discrete and measurable.