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Does it matter if its common? If its something we can prevent, why not?
by ntkachov 13y ago
Does it matter if its common? If its something we can prevent, why not?
- DanBC 13y agoFocussing attention on something scary but rare leads people into danger when they ignore the much more common risk. We know that people make mistakes when drunk, and we know that some people use alcohol as a rape-drug. In England it's much more common for people to make bad choices about sex when they're drunk than for a predator to deliberately spike a drink with a drug. Having a shot glass with whiskey in it and the label "safe" is just weird.
- mdisraeli 13y agoIndeed. Most common thing to spike drinks with? More alcohol.
- Casseres 13y agoYou can prevent a lot of uncommon things by never stepping foot outside of your house, but then again there are always trees that fall on houses, tornadoes that rip up houses, hurricanes that flood houses, earthquakes which break apart houses - and those are just natural causes, then there's the poisons in your household cleaners, knives, etc...
- throwit1979 13y agoBecause everything has an opportunity cost, however small. Utilitarianism, as well as "just good horse sense" suggests that finite resources should be allocated to solving problems that cause greater sum harm than lesser sum harm.