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0 pointsgiantg21d ago0 comments

"Implicitly if there were any other single larger cause for the deaths then the article would be about that."

Then show me explicitly what the breakdown is.

"the _unnecessarily_ large vehicles"

Define unnecessarily. Do I get to buy one because I'm tall, have a big family, haul stuff?

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lonelyasacloud15h ago· 1 in thread

> Define unnecessarily. Do I get to buy one because I'm tall, have a big family, haul stuff?

Give or take inches around the waist we are the same size and shape. We have roughly the same mental faculties. Afaik we are no lesser than our parents and grandparents who all managed to do just fine without huge vehicles.

If a situation was fine before and changing something either does nothing or makes that situation worse e.g. kills 200 to 400 people, then that change is?

giantg2OP9h ago

"If a situation was fine before and changing something either does nothing or makes that situation worse"

But it's not. You forgot the size and weight of vehicles from previous generations. You forgot the higher fatalities of the past. You're ignoring that people today are taller. You're also ignoring that pedestrian fatalities have gone down over time when looking at the parents and grandparents timeframe to today, despite the more recent uptick.

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