As a cyclist, I kind of agree. Apparently the introduction of seat belts caused an increase in cyclist deaths because people started driving less carefully.
You know, I’ve had a similar thought to what you’ve offered here. It’s always been a tongue in cheek observation, but because cars are so safe, people literally take their safety for granted driving them. If cars were less safe, people might take the responsibility of driving more seriously.
Make it so, if you get in an accident, it chops a foot off. So not life ending, but certainly life altering. People drive knowing “I’ll be fine,” and then they look at a text, daydream, all that. If you knew, every time you got in the car, you risked losing a foot, you’d take that shit seriously.
This is called a Tullock spike, though other economists came to the conclusion that it would have an inverse to the desired effect. Where safe, law abiding drivers would have the danger car while those who don’t care would find a way to bypass the mechanism and continue to drive recklessly. Thereby resulting in more injuries for the drivers you don’t actually want to injure.
If we took every conservative on the planet and put them on an island together, how long do you think it would take before the cannibalism and incest kicked in?
Holy moly this has literally become reddit… fuckin hell.
Because of anti-right wing rhetoric?
Are you aware that Lemmy was originally built by people who wanted a more open and free alternative to Reddit so they could discuss Marxist-Lennism and communism and stuff? Lol
That’s my understanding, at least
You are partially right. But the world does not revolve around left wing and communist beliefs unfortunately. It was purely to have an decentralized social network. Just happens that the likes of the left have much more free time and want to make every single thing about politics for some reason.
It’s almost like your on a thread about right wingers wanting to deregulate safety features. I can’t believe the lefties are complaining about that! How stupid I was to make a thread with “REPUBLICANS” political!
Not making it political, acting superior from a safe space… Do you honestly think republicans would become canibals on an island? Because if you do. Your world view has gotten so dettached from reality that it’s scary… thinking of other people as sub human.
Nothing you said makes sense, retype your comment and try once more. I know it’s tough bud.
Yeah sorry hard to communicate to you in my secondary language well enough I’ll make it a list ao it makes it easier to convey…
- All of you act like you know it all
- You seem to love making any person that has remotely different views as less than human.
- You overuse words like fascist, racist and bigot to a point that it does not even mean what you think it does.
- If the canibals thing made you confused read the original comment…
Anything else I need to shed light on?
