Re:How Children Lost the Right to Roam in Just 4 Generations
by TulliusCicero on Thursday February 02, 2017 @05:54AM
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> What price a life? What else would you block to save a life? Pen lids? Swimming pools? Marshmallows?
Obviously there's some limit to the degree we can protect ourselves, however as it stands, traffic fatalities are one of the highest-ranked causes of death for kids and youth, and we know of plenty of things that could increase traffic safety while still satisfying our transportation needs. There's no need to debate some silly extreme when we can make vast improvements without compromising quality of life.
> This universe. It is nature's way. Nature is unemotionally brutal, and cares not for a slip-up. We just try to insulate ourselves from its brutality.
Yes, and we could insulate ourselves a lot better if we took up better traffic engineering principles.
Obviously there's some limit to the degree we can protect ourselves, however as it stands, traffic fatalities are one of the highest-ranked causes of death for kids and youth, and we know of plenty of things that could increase traffic safety while still satisfying our transportation needs. There's no need to debate some silly extreme when we can make vast improvements without compromising quality of life.
> This universe. It is nature's way. Nature is unemotionally brutal, and cares not for a slip-up. We just try to insulate ourselves from its brutality.
Yes, and we could insulate ourselves a lot better if we took up better traffic engineering principles.