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  • ppl just choose not to be responsible

    you should look into some common causes of car accident, which include:

    • rain
    • night driving
    • design defects
    • ice
    • snow
    • tire blowouts
    • fog full list

    cars are safer than theyve ever been

    no (nbcnews article)

    overall, my position is the same as yours: the average driver is WILDLY unfit to operate a multiton chunk of metal on a daily basis.

    however, it is wildy unrealistic to hope against hope that one day, every driving person will wake up and realize that they should drive safe. there has to be systemic effort, whether thats reduction in cars, increase in mandatory car training or increased access to public transport, in order to see systemic improvement.


  • while you are factually correct that the human is a part of the chain of blame, it is systemically inefficient to blame the driver

    in order to make systemic change and make cars safer, we CANNOT say “oh lol drivers fault, get good.” expecting that order of change from hoards of people is unrealistic.

    however if i blame unsafely sized cars, fast, wide unsafe roads, a failure of US public transport—these are also realistic points of systemic change that i can point to.

    tldr cars are unsafe, cars need to get safer, no amount of blaming the driver will solve things















  • im stuff@lemmy.blahaj.zoneOPto196@lemmy.blahaj.zonemcrule
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    1 year ago

    this isn’t necessarily a valid syllogism depending on how you interpret the first premise you could call it:

    All stupid ideas are had by liberals

    but it could also be

    Some stupid ideas are had by liberals

    and we don’t know which OP meant. if the latter, an I-A-A syllogism is invalid.

    because the language of the first premise is ambiguous, it cannot be definitely stated that the argument posed by anon is valid