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I think it’s more akin to telling someone at the party that it’d be stupid to chug that whole bottle of liquor on a dare.
by CleanRoomClub 2y ago
I think it’s more akin to telling someone at the party that it’d be stupid to chug that whole bottle of liquor on a dare.
- badRNG 2y agoIs dropping a hat really comparable to chugging a whole bottle of liquor?
- solsane 2y agoIt is a hat. Chugging a bottle of liquor has way more harm potential.
- Retric 2y agoOnly if you’re focused on the individual instead of risk to unrelated 3rd parties.
- alex_lav 2y agoYes, think of how dangerous it is to have a hat land nearby…
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- Retric 2y agoYou mean how dangerous is tossing something vision blocking where people drive…
- alex_lav 2y agoYes, how dangerous is it? Please enlighten me.
- Retric 2y ago> Yes, how dangerous is it? Lethality dangerous
- alex_lav 2y agoNo, define how dangerous it is please. I’d like to know the odds of dying from a hat falling from the sky. If we’re going to call something dangerous, we should probably have actual logic and data to support that claim, right?
- Retric 2y ago> actual logic and data to support that claim, right? As you seem to be massively misinformed: > Distracted driving is dangerous, claiming 3,308 lives in 2022 > What Is Distracted Driving? > anything that takes your attention away from the task of safe driving. https://www.nhtsa.gov/risky-driving/distracted-driving https://www.nhtsa.gov/risky-driving/distracted-driving Now obviously having a hat land on a windshield and actually block visibility would be worse, but catching something falling out of the edge of your vision especially something odd like a falling hat would easily qualify. It’s also distracting pedestrians and so likely to result in other injuries.
- alex_lav 2y ago> As you seem to be massively misinformed: I am not "massively misinformed". I'm asking a person making a ridiculous claim (a hat falling from the sky will kill you) to support their claim. I'm seeing no mention of hats in your linked information. Please share hat related injuries, as that's what we're discussing.
- Retric 2y agoThe claim is distracting drivers can result in deaths, it has little specific to hats. Rather it’s about the dropping. “Several properties of visual stimuli have been shown to capture attention, one of which is the onset of motion.“ https://link.springer.com/article/10.3758/s13414-018-1548-1 https://link.springer.com/article/10.3758/s13414-018-1548-1 > I am not "massively misinformed" Your ignorant response proves otherwise.
- addicted 2y agoDrinking alcohol is almost certainly more dangerous than dropping hats. This is not even close. Heck, pick any one negative impact of drinking alcohol at parties (impaired driving, or long term health effects, or impaired judgment, etc) and that individual impact would probably be orders of magnitude worse than the total negative impact of dropping hats.
- abirch 2y agoIf someone spikes the punch with alcohol that's bad. If everyone is consenting: drop away. If they don't consent please leave them alone.