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Re:Despite Proven Technology, Attempts to Make Table Saws Sa... by mikeash on Wednesday August 16, 2017 @12:26PM (#15028783)
Furthermore, making it into a monetary loss might actually help people be more careful. Time and again I see people respond much better to "that will be expensive to fix if you break it" than to "that will maim or kill you."

My flying club's annual safety meeting always puts heavy emphasis on the time and money cost of breaking our equipment for this reason. It seems to work well.

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Re:Despite Proven Technology, Attempts to Make Table Saws Sa... by khuey on Wednesday August 16, 2017 @01:03PM (#15029122)
Everybody has an experience making an expensive mistake that they can relate to. (Living) people don't generally have experiences dying that they can relate to.
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