• CaptainBlinky@lemmy.myserv.one
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          7 hours ago

          Which I am, because pretty much everything leads to death eventually. I’m not a super being that can calculate the number of deaths directly resulting from an airplane flying in a given day.

      • Etterra@discuss.online
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        1 day ago

        When the traffic density for planes is the same as the traffic density of cars within say 100 miles of airports, then I’ll take that statistic seriously.

        • friendlymessage@feddit.org
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          22 hours ago

          What an odd thing to say… “If conditions would be completely different the statistics would be different, therefore I don’t trust the statistics”. What’s your point exactly?

      • bobs_monkey@lemmy.zip
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        The difference here is that pilots are rigorously trained and go through constant continuing trainings and recertifications, while someone who wants a driver’s license effectively needs to prove they have a pulse and can read at a second grade reading level (at least here in the US). If we actually cared about road safety, we’d raise the bar for a driver’s license.