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What makes it a fallacy? Statistically speaking, being ok with driving but being scared of going on an airplane, any airplane, makes absolutely no sense
by amrocha 3y ago
What makes it a fallacy? Statistically speaking, being ok with driving but being scared of going on an airplane, any airplane, makes absolutely no sense
- bombcar 3y agoBut it makes perfect sense, because in many car fatalities there were numerous things the dead person could have done better like not drink, brake sooner, not speed, etc that would have spared them. In almost all plane fatalities the only dead people who had a chance of doing something better were the pilots. The passengers were doomed from the start.
- paledot 3y agoThe fallacy is contending that something is safe by comparing it favourably to an extremely unsafe activity. The takeaway of "you are more likely to die on the drive to the airport" should be "cars are dangerous" not "planes are safe". Planes are ~safe (save evidently for those made by Boeing post-2000), but why not say that the annual global death toll due to plane crashes (~500/yr) is comparable to that of hippopotamuses? Automobiles kill 1.2 million people per year. Statistically speaking, being comfortable with driving makes no sense.
- kcrwfrd_ 3y agoI mean that kind of makes it the opposite of a fallacy.
- amrocha 3y agoI guess I don't see the comparison the same way you do. You frame it as comparing something dangerous to something safe. I see it as something you would be willing to do without fear, to something even safer than that. I don't disagree that driving is dangerous, but most people are willing to accept that danger.