“There was a time when nobody trusted either aircraft nor elevators. Today people have pure unquestioned faith in both. Existential faith in fact, they test their faith with their lives. You may chuckle and laugh but that's simply because you are ignorant of the systems that keep you alive and safe”

https://kemendo.com/Faith.html

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dsf2g 4 hours ago | parent [-]

" Today people have pure unquestioned faith in both"

Not true at all. We accept the risks to obtain benefits but we also know having an accident in the air or in elevators is highly unlikely given what we know; so therefore its perfectly rational behaviour.

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AndrewKemendo 4 hours ago | parent [-]

Nonsense

that would assume that your average person has any concept of the relative statistics and has a sense of making decisions based on statistics

People make decisions based on what other people around them are doing

this is well known in safety engineering in architecture and civil engineering which is why you have standards for egress doors because left of their own devices humans will follow crowds to their own death

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crowd_collapses_and_crushes

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/05/080512172901.h...

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dsf2g an hour ago | parent [-]

One does not need to know of relative statistics to know that a) you dont see planes randomly dropping out of the sky on a regular basis b) people enjoy flying to hot destinations and are willing to accept the small chance the flight may not be risk-free - people are aware of this when they experience some level of turbulence when flying.

Finally, Ive seen plenty of your posts on here. You write with a particular tone. Who are you? A nobody who's spent a lot of time posting crap on here.

	▲	AndrewKemendo 32 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		I’m curious if you can actually describe the tone