Comment on Car crashes have killed and seriously injured roughly the same number of people as shootings in Chicago this year. Only one of these things is treated as a safety crisis in the media

• SwingingTheLamp@midwest.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  You don’t understand what fear is like?

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  • Nangijala@feddit.dk ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Claiming that people driving cars are sociopathic is a bizarre claim. Claiming that cars are worse than the concept of a mass shooting is insane. I reiterate: I hope you never find yourself in a mass shooting. Seeing a car drive by on the road cannot make you remotely as scared as being trapped in a building, knowing someone is shooting, but not knowing where they are, how many there are nor how close they are to getting you or your loved ones.

    You cannot compare driving cars in a city to that. That is insane.

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    • SwingingTheLamp@midwest.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Getting trapped in a building with a mass shooter is something very, very unlikely. On the other hand, I face the danger of death by automobile at least twice a day, on my ride to work, and my ride home. More, if I go other places. It may seem not that bad because it’s so normalized. Dying in or under the wheels of a car is something that happens to people every single day, and it barely rates a mention in the local news. Sometimes the victim doesn’t get even get a name. By contrast, the stochastic nature of mass shootings makes them scary, like plane crashes or terrorist attacks, the natural order of things is upended. Death is death, though, and I wouldn’t be less dead if it were a texting driver rather than a gunman.

      And the texting driver is a whole hell a of a lot more likely. So, yes, it’s entirely logical that I’m afraid of that. Not being able to understand and denying that fear is exactly the kind of car-induced sociopathy that I’m talking about.

      Throwing insults is not a discussion, by the way.

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      • Nangijala@feddit.dk ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Throwing insults is not a discussion, by the way.

        denying that fear is exactly the kind of car-induced sociopathy that I’m talking about.

        Lol.

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