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Creators assume you have enough self control to get on without hurting yourself and enough common sense to avoid getting your legs and hands cut off. If you ar
by funkyy 12y ago
Creators assume you have enough self control to get on without hurting yourself and enough common sense to avoid getting your legs and hands cut off.
If you are one of those people that lack both of them - you should take the stairs.
- marcosdumay 12y agoPeople do manage to kill themselves on stairs all the time...
- Crito 12y agoWhich really drives home the point that we as a society have decided to accept a certain level of risk. That, at a certain point, we don't allow safety concerns to get in the way of getting shit done. I mean, we could make stairs safer. We could install foam pits at every landing, cover the steps with tons of padding like at a climbing gym, then make everyone ascending or descending put on a harness and clip onto a guide wire. We have the technology to do all of those things, and it probably reduce the number of people who fall down the stairs and crack their skull on the concrete, but we don't. We don't because we accept that a few people dying on occasion is a better outcome than spending the time and money to completely sterilize our world.
- Dylan16807 12y agoIt's more complex than that. Installing safety systems requires additional work, which adds additional risk of injury. Being risk free is not only prohibitively expensive, it's impossible. And that's not even getting into the fact that people take fewer precautions when things seem safer...
- calibraxis 12y agoYeah, there's even many ways we could stop spending, and save lives: - Slash military spending. (At least militant nations which send killers to other countries.) - Use efficient transportation systems, not each person drives some clumsy car which is even mostly unused. - More efficient healthcare system.
- lifeformed 12y agoBut there are a lot of accidental ways to get hurt. Backpack straps or loose clothing getting caught, or just simply tripping, or having impaired mobility (seniors and handicapped people).
- achamayou 12y agoWheelchairs, prams, crutches etc.
- Dylan16807 12y agoConsider it an alternative to an escalator.