> To put it another way: Telling someone they have a negligible chance of being in an aviation accident is worthless comfort if they end up in one. Sure. It’s

> To put it another way: Telling someone they have a negligible chance of being in an aviation accident is worthless comfort if they end up in one. Sure. It’s also callous and insensitive, which is why we don’t tend to do that. But saying to the vast majority who are never going to experience a plane crash (a number larger than the number of victims by a few orders of magnitude) that it’s a coin toss is at least not very smart.