Don_Dickle@lemmy.world to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · 21 hours 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-square48fedilinkarrow-up159arrow-down133
arrow-up126arrow-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 · 21 hours agomessage-square48fedilink
minus-squarebarkybeak@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkarrow-up10·18 hours 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.
minus-squareCypher@aussie.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up4·16 hours ago driving is the deadliest method of transportation per kilometre? Driving is not the deadliest method of transportation per kilometre which it seems you missed. Motorcycling is deadlier, horse riding is even worse and jet skis are the worst that I’m aware of. Base jumping would probably be the deadliest but I’m not familiar with the statistics on it.
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.
Driving is not the deadliest method of transportation per kilometre which it seems you missed.
Motorcycling is deadlier, horse riding is even worse and jet skis are the worst that I’m aware of.
Base jumping would probably be the deadliest but I’m not familiar with the statistics on it.