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Not as much anymore. Sure, trap teams are common, but we used to have school rifle clubs that taught safe handling of firearms. Now we've decided that if we do
by kQq9oHeAz6wLLS 18d ago
Not as much anymore. Sure, trap teams are common, but we used to have school rifle clubs that taught safe handling of firearms.
Now we've decided that if we don't talk about something, people won't get curious about it. Sadly, without being properly taught how to be safe, that generally ends tragically.
- snackoverflow 18d agoI believe the comment was in reference to the frequency of school shootings in the United States vs the rest of the world.
- picofarad 17d ago457 deaths in US history. 1200 deaths a day from diarrhea in India. Put it in perspective.
- lazide 17d agoNo way it’s that low in India, either.
- haliskerbas 17d agoA larger number of people dying from an unrelated cause in another country doesn’t make these deaths insignificant. By that logic, virtually no problem deserves attention because you can always find something that kills more people.
- irishcoffee 17d agoYou must not be familiar with the trolley problem.
- wredcoll 17d agoThe "trolley problem" is literally never a valid argument for anything because it purports to create an analogy for a real world problem but does so by creating a scenario that cannot exist, hence any argument based on it is nonapplicable to "real" problems.
- irishcoffee 17d agoYou think that kind of scenario cannot exist? That is your reasoning for dismissing it? You’ll hafta do better than that.
- wredcoll 17d agoThe true version of the trolley problem requires perfect knowledge of the future. This can't exist in the real world.
- irishcoffee 17d agoSo you’re being pedantic? Future forecasts and estimates can’t mesh with the trolly problem? If that’s your stance sure, you are correct. I do feel like you missed the whole point of the exercise though, and are hiding behind an absolute that is never achievable.
- wredcoll 17d agoLook, nobody brings up the trolley problem because they're concerned about what they're going to do when a train car goes out of control. They use it as a metaphor to attempt to make an argument about a different, actually real, situation. My argument is this is pointless because no real world situation will ever meaningfully resemble the trolley problem. The correct answer to the trolley problem is STOP THE TROLLEY. "You can't do that!" "Why not?" "because magic" "well how do I know this magic is there?" "more magic!" etc etc. What do you do if the dragon demands a sacrifice or it attacks the town? You fight the dragon.
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- samudrijan 17d agoSpoken like a non-parent.
- suburban_strike 17d agoThe real elephant in the room is that 60% of our school shootings are streetside minority violence spilling into schools, not angry white incels mowing down classmates.
- sobani 17d agoAs someone from a country where neither happens, I don't think this distinction matters a lot.
- kQq9oHeAz6wLLS 12d agoIt does if you're looking to solve the problem at the root, rather than treat the symptoms.
- saimiam 17d agoAccording to UNICEF, globally, Diarrhea causes 444k deaths of children under 5 or ~1200 per day. Globally, 1.2 million people (all ages) die of diarrhea every year. India accounts for 120k deaths of children under 4 or roughly one fourth of global D related deaths or 328 deaths per day. Assuming a similar ratio across all ages, India must account for 300k D related deaths every year of roughly 820 deaths. Not great (obviously) but at least it only accounts for 1/4 of all D deaths, not 1/3rd. Edit - worth pointing out that India has 1.4B out of 8B humans globally or a little more than 1/6th. https://data.unicef.org/topic/child-health/diarrhoeal-disease/ https://data.unicef.org/topic/child-health/diarrhoeal-diseas... https://www.joghr.org/article/75428-evaluating-india-s-intensified-diarrhea-control-fortnight-an-analysis-of-the-national-family-health-survey-2015-2016 https://www.joghr.org/article/75428-evaluating-india-s-inten...