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Originally Posted by Weitz
Guns and dogs are a pretty poor comparison. Dogs kill 1-2 people a year in Canada from a quick google.
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I’m not sure how scale matters in terms of the argument.
We accept X deaths a year because we believe that people should get to have Y.
We cry about personal responsibility when Y kills something even though these events are entirely predictable.
These deaths are entirely predictable given the policies we have.
Would you prefer car accidents? I’m fine saying that the benefits from from current automobiles in general is worth the number of fatalities. We need to stop talking about these deaths as tragedies or accidents. They are natural consequences of policies we choose to have. A dispassionate discussion of are these costs worth should happen.