Don_Dickle@lemmy.world to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · 5 months agoIs it wrong of me not giving a shit when cops get killed? They signed up for the job know what it entails. Same with Firepeople. I feel bad 4 families but no one gives a shit about Nurses or DRs?message-squaremessage-square42fedilinkarrow-up156arrow-down135
arrow-up121arrow-down1message-squareIs it wrong of me not giving a shit when cops get killed? They signed up for the job know what it entails. Same with Firepeople. I feel bad 4 families but no one gives a shit about Nurses or DRs?Don_Dickle@lemmy.world to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · 5 months agomessage-square42fedilink
minus-squarebarkybeak@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkarrow-up9·5 months agoPeople’s intuition on risk is wildly off here. Skydiving sounds insane, but in the U.S. it’s ~9–10 deaths a year out of millions of jumps (roughly 1 in a few hundred thousand per jump). Driving feels normal, but it kills ~40,000+ people every single year. So yeah—both involve “transportation,” but the one everyone does casually every day is orders of magnitude deadlier than the one that sounds extreme.
People’s intuition on risk is wildly off here.
Skydiving sounds insane, but in the U.S. it’s ~9–10 deaths a year out of millions of jumps (roughly 1 in a few hundred thousand per jump).
Driving feels normal, but it kills ~40,000+ people every single year.
So yeah—both involve “transportation,” but the one everyone does casually every day is orders of magnitude deadlier than the one that sounds extreme.