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This is the only correct answer. Cars kill so many people it's absurd.
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Cars.
Firearm injury 2nd: how to know this is US data without it being labeled as US data.
correct! And even in USA where there is a mass shooting like every day, the car is worse than firearms
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Cars
Statistically speaking, you will either die by cancer, or you will die in an automotive accident.
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Two way roads.
If they didn't exist today and someone came up with the brilliant idea of having people in control of machines (cars or bikes) moving in opposite directions at 50mph, separated by a few feet and a painted line, it would be dismissed immediately.
I drive on a lot of rural roads in the UK, mainly Wales, most of the time I'm just happy when the road has space for two cars to squeeze through and some visibility for what's coming around the corner of that rural lane. Actual physical lines separating the lanes? Oh boy it's my birthday. Yet with all that, we have a death rate per 100 million miles of just over a third of somewhere like the US, so I'd imagine the size of cars and inadequate licence requirements are probably bigger issues for road safety
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Your car. Just think about the forces and mechanisms invovled for this to happen. Every single day we travel at 100km/h in our 2ton at least metal box surrounded by hundreds of other people in their equally large and heavy and fast machines in a space barely wide enough to react in case of an emergency(not even considering if most are actually ready to act in such a case. All of this with realistically little training. Not to mention most people don't really pay attention while driving and certainly don't consider the life of others while doing so. It's so impersonal and dangerous. If it was a never heard of concept, individual cars driven by any normal person would be considered laughably stupid at the very best.
The top three causes of preventable fatal injury in the US are:
- poisoning (including drug overdoses)
- motor vehicles
- falls
We might generalize these to:
- chemistry
- engineering
- physics
im pretty sure the engineering is not at fault for most car accidents.
thats true, but we got to agree Nยฐ3 is solely Isaac Newton's fault, for inventing gravity
I'll never forget the last thing grandpa ever said to me:
"Stop shaking the ladder, you little shit!"
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Ladders. Most serious workplace accidents in a lot of trades can be linked back to falling from a hight. Don't be cocky when up a ladder, even little ones.
Ladders are legitimately one of the leading causes of death and serious injury among otherwise healthy middle aged adults. A basic fall protection system with some flex rope and a climbing harness can be had for around $100. I don't care if my neighbors think I'm a dweeb, I'm not dying for clean gutters.
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Dihydrogen monoxide. That stuff'll kill you.
Psh, I drink it everyday and I'm FINE
But everyone who drinks it will die..
But it's the stuff which is used in nuclear power plants to store the used rods.
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Capitalism. Most of the other (daily, specific) dangers out there are dangerous because someone's making money off putting other people in danger. I'm including the military industrial complex, but also regular industries and the exploitation of vulnerable populations.
Idk if we use capitalism so much as we get used...
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Fossil fuel pollution.
Electricity?
Swimming pools, with kids in the house. More dangerous than owning a gun:
Pools are more dangerous than owning a gun in the same way that vending machines kill more people than sharks.
People are near vending machines way more often than they are near sharks, and people let their kids play in the pool more often than they let them play with firearms
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Gas stoves. Disasters waiting to happen with people sometimes forgetting to turn them off.
You know, it boggles my mind why stoves in some countries don't come with thermoswitch. The decades old ones here come with it here. Either fire keeps the valve open via this thermoswitch or if fire goes out gas valve is shut off. Danger gone.
I'd say electricity. Even with all the safety precautions we have when using our electrical devices, there's still so much that can go wrong
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Lithium batteries
Time. Getting old sucks.
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