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While the level of crime is appalling, it needs to be addressed, not ignored and isolating by putting yourself into a little metal box. This is actually the p
by ClumsyPilot 3y ago
While the level of crime is appalling, it needs to be addressed, not ignored and isolating by putting yourself into a little metal box.
This is actually the perfect example of car-brain mentality, you can totally ignore huge social issues, ugly and dirty streets, etc. because you are insulated from them and are just driving past. If you had to walk through that area, that would not work.
If wealthy and influential people could not isolate themselves from the problem, maybe they would actually fix the problem
- lenkite 3y agoSure, lets be the guinea pig and sacrifice one's life for the sake of some hypothetical improvement that will happen by one's death. Since other folks have died on the NY subway and nothing has changed, I doubt one's sacrifice will do anything. Maybe the leadership of the city should daily take the NY subway - without their personal security. And then write a bond of guarantee for the public.
- ClumsyPilot 3y agoActually a bong guarantee is a good idea, if the city had to pay damages every time someone in a victim of crime a subway, things might be solved quickly. You are describing tragedy of individual action. Similar story to protesting in Russia. Or using a bicycle instead of a car. Or perhaps climate change, and a few others
- mlrtime 3y agoThis is a horrible idea, the city does not care about paying damages. The taxpayers pay it, not the city agencies. NYC pays out BILLIONS every year in real and garbage claims.
- vel0city 3y agoFar more people are injured or die on the highway outside my office in Texas than in the subways of NY, and there's fewer people riding on the highway.