More people are killed in auto accidents then in the other so called "weapons" events combined. So should we ban Cars?
More people are killed in auto accidents then in the other so called "weapons" events combined. So should we ban Cars?
First go after the tobacco companies.Originally Posted by slapout9
Seriously, why so polemic now? Desperate for arguments? For that's what it signals.
It should be self-evident that non-linked topics need to have their costs and benefits looked at separately. One may argue the marginal rate (kind of "benefits per one accepted death") should be identical across the board, but such a mathematical view doesn't help in practice. Philosophy and other researchers have not delivered the means to pulls such a comparison off anyway.
So the state of the art is to look at separate topics separately, and to settle on an opinion of the optimum balance of costs and benefits based on preferences.
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