Replacing a broken set of blinds in my house and apparently no one sells the old standard kind where you pull the cord to raise them, I guess because kids and/or pets could tangle in the cord? Bit of an education in miniblinds today.

    • PeepinGoodArgs@reddthat.com
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      30 days ago

      Well, nothing is 100% safe, and we allow plenty of things that are demonstrably unsafe to continue. So if you compare bike-car collisions against say, firearm suicides in the US, you’ll see that bike-car collisions aren’t that bad.

      The fundamental argument is that nothing is totally safe, but some things are safer than others.

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        30 days ago

        so by your logic since nothing is as bad as [choose any cause of death], we should just… give up on improving safety?

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            30 days ago

            I legitimately don’t understand your question. If you’re asking if the cost to improve safety may be too great in some cases, yes that is true in some cases. But you haven’t made that case in this specific instance yet.