| ▲ | legitster 6 hours ago | |
To really emphasize this, car crashes are the top source of police deaths. Yet less than 50% of police use their seat belts. The justification most give is that they may need to be able to quickly get out of a car and pull their gun in a confrontation. The only way this makes sense is that A) Police aren't being properly trained based on data B) People have an irrational psychological fear of murder over other types of death | ||
| ▲ | giantg2 6 hours ago | parent [-] | |
A is the likely part. B isn't necessarily irrational. Many other types of death are at your own actions. Things like drinking alcohol, eating whatever you feel like, not exercising, doing drug, even driving, etc provide some self-identified "benefit" to the individual that they choose to partake. It's rationale that someone is more afraid of dying from an activity they recieve no benefit from than an activity they do. | ||