Have never and will never fly. Don't care. Too much shit goes wrong. "BUT YOU ARE MORE LIKELY TO GET IN AN AUTOMOBILE ACCIDENT" Yeah, but cars tend to not FALL OUT OF THE FUCKING SKY FROM WAY THE HELL FAR UP WHEN SOMETHING GOES WRONG. Hate that fucking statistic because you DO have a good amount of control over the safety of your own car vs. a plane that if any little thing goes wrong, you're likely fucked.

Sure, there are dangers driving a damn car. There's danger walking out of your front door. Getting into the shower. Doing ANYTHING in this life with our frail-ass human bodies. I'm not going to escalate that by going up into the goddamn sky on board an old-ass fucking airplane depending on half-assed maintenance and poorly done code. If my car fails, it's on the side of the road waiting for a tow truck. If I get hit by someone, or I hit someone, at least I can survive and that is significantly improved with the quality of my driving. If the plane fails, I'm fucking dead, end of fucking story.

Don't give me this CARS ARE MORE DANGEROUS shit. And "odds" mean nothing because at any time the odds can fall against you. Odds aren't a guarantee of "this has to happen X number of times in Y without fail". Typical uneducated thinking.

[–] 3xBork@lemmy.world -1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

It's less uneducated thinking and more "here's a thing I read online that I can parrot to show that I am more rational than others".

That statistic could be entirely unfounded and people would still be repeating it because it serves their purposes. Internet nerds love gotchas.

That aside, fully agreed regarding the level of control. It's a little like saying "people have - and therefore you have - an x% chance of getting lung cancer" while completing ignoring that a huge portion of that is a direct result of only some people's behaviour, namely smoking.

The people driving defensively, sober and attentively are not likely to be the ones folding themselves around a roadside tree.

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