You can do it about driving, you can do it about anesthesia.
The issue for me is probability. Not all risks are created equal. You ignore the low risks, and focus on the relatively high risks.
Most people never develop any sense of this, though, and instead just fear what they can most easily imagine.
So after 9/11 -- which meant two weeks of watching planes fly into buildings and blow up -- an incredible percentage of America was afraid to fly, in flat defiance of the probabilities. Meanwhile they had no problem smoking and driving.
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Date: 2011-11-25 04:24 pm (UTC)The issue for me is probability. Not all risks are created equal. You ignore the low risks, and focus on the relatively high risks.
Most people never develop any sense of this, though, and instead just fear what they can most easily imagine.
So after 9/11 -- which meant two weeks of watching planes fly into buildings and blow up -- an incredible percentage of America was afraid to fly, in flat defiance of the probabilities. Meanwhile they had no problem smoking and driving.