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Originally Posted by mre5765 View Post
Yeah yeah, crossing the street, driving a car, visiting a hospital, yadda, yadda, yadda, are all riskier than flying in a plane with a cockpit infested with snot nosed kids. Riskier than flying without a seat belt. Riskier than letting pax sit in jump seats. Riskier than letting cripples sit in exit rows. Etc.
I think you are beginning to get it.
I'm getting your illogic. Which can be explained by this example. Wearing the seat belt on a plane is mostly likely not going to extend my life versus not, whereas, if give up flying, and drive car 100K additional miles/year instead, there is a significant chance my life will end before my life expectancy. Therefore, I should not bother to wear the seat belt on the plane, and instead, stick it to the man who has a rule requiring me to wear the seat belt. Even though that seat belt might provide nominal protection in some crashes or hard landings, not to mention turbulence.
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In my life I tend to look for the unnecessary risks and avoid them. That legal left turn out of the parking lot into a 6 lane road. Forget that ... I'll turn right and do the U-turn. Or find another exit from the lot that entails a left turn through fewer lanes. I want to live.
But you refuse to actually analyze risk but rely on emotion to evaluate it? That, my friend, is not the way to a long life.
Ridiculous libel. A 6 lane route with 10X the traffic as the 2 lane road is the riskier one to turn into. I chose to exit onto the 2 lane road (making a right turn, which is safer than a left), and then turn left at controller intersection with a left turn arrow onto the 6 lane road. I spend less time and distance on the 6 lane road too. That's risk analysis. Reason says my path to the 6 lane road is safer. The only emotion that enters into it is that I do not enjoy making left turns across 3 lanes of traffic into more busy traffic. Now if some people enjoyed that sort of thing, then one could make the argument that the tradeoff of the enjoyment for the risk is worth it.
There's no debate that I will live longer avoiding dangerous left turns.
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I especially try to avoid doing unnecessary things that put others at risk at no benefit to them and only benefit to me. Taking your kid into a commercial aircraft's cockpit is unnecessary, selfish, and puts me at risk.
If you won't realistically evaluate your own behaviors, I'm sure not going to let you dictate mine.
I've debunked your accusation that I don't evaluate my own behaviors. But whether I engage in behavior that puts me at risk or not, that does not give you the right to engage in behaviors that put me at risk. As for whether you are going to let me or not, the reality is that I dictate them by funding candidates who pass laws that will strip you of your liberty if you continue your behaviors. You've no choice; I've won. Your funding of the anarchist party hasn't gotten you anywhere yet, nor is it likely to in the future.