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People will always die, but almost all of them will die in ways that are PREVENTABLE.
by SR2Z 11mo ago
People will always die, but almost all of them will die in ways that are PREVENTABLE.
- rcxdude 11mo agoThe question is which ones are preventable in advance without causing other deaths.
- elzbardico 11mo agoBut the paradox is, all of them will die and not all preventions are Pareto efficient. I can keep an old decrepit rich guy living a miserable life for some more 6 months at the same cost that would take to me to improve the life expectancy of some 100 poor babies a few decades. I can try save a bunch of fat very-sick boomers from a respiratory infection at the cost of causing an economic crisis that will completely fuck a lot of young people too for decades ahead. Was it fucking worth?
- SR2Z 11mo agoThe amount of flying that people do is not constant; if lots of airplanes fall out of the sky and explode in fiery wrecks, people will fly less. In this case, "lots" is "anything more than once a month" because footage of the above is addictive to anyone trying to make money from the news. Look at how many flights there are a day. How high can the crash rate be until those pictures are seared into our eyeballs? It's actually funny you bring up COVID, because I agree with you that the restrictions were... not good. I also think that the FAA could use a lighter touch on just about everything, EXCEPT the level of safety it requires from Part 121 operators.