I get your point technically, but I think the mildly fallacious part of your argument is that the warp example opens up the possibility of orders of magnitude f

I get your point technically, but I think the mildly fallacious part of your argument is that the warp example opens up the possibility of orders of magnitude farther travel in the first place, whereas most Earthbound modes of transport are not too far off from one another in their potential. Nobody’s driving a Corolla to the Andromeda Galaxy, or flying on a 737. Therefore no one ought to be comparing them on any distance-related metric, probably. Perhaps a pure “chances that a given person boarding the craft disembarks alive” metric would be better.