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Originally Posted by username
If I have to sacrifice 4 days a decade (0.01%) of my time to increase the safely of our neighbourhoods thus saving lives then I will.
Hardly seems like this should even be debated....
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Calgarians will lose about 700 years of life per year as a result of this change so you need to save about 10 lives. The average Of deaths per year is 9 and since at most this affects 50% of the deaths and you only improve survival rate by half this in the best case scenario will save 1 to 2 lives per year at the expense of 10.
So from a utilitarian standpoint this law doesn’t pay
The logic of its only x is a poor way to make decisions because by that logic highway speeds should be 50 or 80. People die because we drive speed limits can’t be set with a goal of zero