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adjl posted...

mooreandrew58 posted...

once again your missing my f***ing point. my only point being that these comparisons are stupid and one should have no bearing on how we consider dealing with the other.

They should, however, inform how paranoid people are about the risks. People are afraid of flying, when in fact driving is orders of magnitude more dangerous. Ergo, people should be more afraid of driving than of flying. Similarly, people are afraid of Islamic terrorists (to the point of wanting to ban Muslims from entering the country), when there are many things that present a much more immediate threat that should command greater fear.

It's not really about dictating what should be done to solve the problem (though given finite resources, it does make more sense to allocate those resources toward solving greater threats), it's just saying that it's stupid and logically inconsistent to be afraid of something while not being afraid of something else that's more dangerous.

I don't mind informing people of risks. just saying its kind of stupid saying this is riskier than that so you shouldn't worry about that.

and once again i'll say i'm betting money most lawnmower accidents are user error. so its not something you should so much be afraid of the risk over, just something you should consider when you mow your lawn. at the end of the day though one problem is up to the people themselves to worry about the other is the government's problem as not shit we the people can do about it ourselves.

now if people where dying to lawnmowers over something they had little to no chance of avoiding like say lets use it blowing up as an extreme off the top of my head example. then yeah i'd say it might a be a problem worth really worrying over. but it still wouldn't mean we should completely ignore other issues especially when they are so completely unrelated issues.
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