Comparing car crashes and homicides in this way is a dishonest appeal to emotion. Click bait. Substitute homicides for shark attacks and you’ll see how dumb this article is.
@youCanCallMeDragon@SwingingTheLamp Emotion is what causes people to be more scared of violent crime than the everyday consequences of their transportation choices when cars are much more likely to injure, kill, or sicken them. Data showing how many people are killed by motorists instead of murderers is necessary to help people overcome that emotion and make decisions based on realistic risk assessment.
Okay, now imagine the city spending a billion dollars a year on preventing shark attacks, and elections being decided based on the candidates shark policy.
Bro if your city has more homicides than car crashes you have bigger problems than traffic.
Yes, if your city has more homicides than traffic deaths, the bigger problem is—drum roll please—homicides.
But if your city has more traffic deaths than homicides, then traffic is a bigger problem than homicides. Which is the whole point of this post.
Comparing car crashes and homicides in this way is a dishonest appeal to emotion. Click bait. Substitute homicides for shark attacks and you’ll see how dumb this article is.
@youCanCallMeDragon @SwingingTheLamp Emotion is what causes people to be more scared of violent crime than the everyday consequences of their transportation choices when cars are much more likely to injure, kill, or sicken them. Data showing how many people are killed by motorists instead of murderers is necessary to help people overcome that emotion and make decisions based on realistic risk assessment.
(Car use is violent crime)
Okay, now imagine the city spending a billion dollars a year on preventing shark attacks, and elections being decided based on the candidates shark policy.
Huh. If traffic is more likely to kill me than violent crime, it’s a dishonest emotional reaction to fear traffic more than violent crime?
Yeah. Not choking on henry Ford’s dick makes you a liar.
TIL
I’m shocked how many people dont know this.
Then why spend more on cops than metro?