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Comic Strips is a community for those who love comic stories.

The rules are simple:

The post can be a single image, an image gallery, or a link to a specific comic hosted on another site (the author's website, for instance).
The comic must be a complete story.
If it is an external link, it must be to a specific story, not to the root of the site.
You may post comics from others or your own.
If you are posting a comic of your own, a maximum of one per week is allowed (I know, your comics are great, but this rule helps avoid spam).
The comic can be in any language, but if it's not in English, OP must include an English translation in the post's 'body' field (note: you don't need to select a specific language when posting a comic).
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[–] wabafee@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Is the reasoning for the comic, like it's cheaper for a funeral cost than someone who survives and incur cost during recovery not including the chance for a lawsuit on both scenario?

[–] ricecake@sh.itjust.works 10 points 9 months ago (1 children)

The actual reasoning by the NHTSA is that busses are statistically safer than other methods of getting to school, and that adding and requiring seatbelts reduces ridership, which pushes students to less safe ways of getting to school, and also costs money that isn't justified by the number of lives and injuries saved.

Statistically, a human life in the US is worth about $7.5 million. So if your intervention costs $8 million and only saves one life, then you're in the hole $500 thousand.

[–] Zeth0s@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

You are expansive guys...

[–] maniclucky@lemmy.world 6 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I thought you meant expensive, but given the obesity epidemic, the sentence works either way.

[–] Zeth0s@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Hahaha, expensive expandable expendables!

But yeah, I meant expensive