Schools are safer than they were in the 90s

Re:Schools are safer than they were in the 90s by CompanionCuuube on Friday March 02, 2018 @12:33PM (#16503715)

We don't, or we can't? As a country, we can do things to force people to avoid the risk factors and take mitigating actions.

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Re:Schools are safer than they were in the 90s by craftyguy on Friday March 02, 2018 @03:27PM (#16505383)

> we can do things to force people to avoid the risk factors and take mitigating actions.

Just like we forced people to stop drinking during prohibition, and we force petty criminals all the time to stop doing bad stuff once caught?

We'd like to think it's the former ("we can, but we don't"), but the reality is we can't.

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Re:Schools are safer than they were in the 90s by CompanionCuuube on Friday March 02, 2018 @04:03PM (#16505665)

What you're saying is that we should be giving up many human lives every year to maintain the status quo?

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Re:Schools are safer than they were in the 90s by always_good on Friday March 02, 2018 @12:43PM (#16503828)

I think the fact that you can bloat up to any weight you want just like how you can have as many kids as you want represent how primitive our civilization really is.

We are incredibly ineffective at doling out scarce resources or pricing in externalities.

I just don't expect humanity to get a handle on it for another 100 years at least. I'd say that, right now, we can't.

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