| ▲ | bko 2 days ago | ||||||||||||||||
Things that affect my life: My children going to a park with regular drug users with convenient needle drop (remove needle drops and arrest the handful of drug users that hang around children's parks with dangerous drugs on them) Package thefts (sting operation to arrest the handful of people organizing these thefts) Crazy people on subway (end "showtime" and people sleeping on the train) People driving dangerously (cameras) Smell of weed everywhere (don't allow smoking weed in public) But I guess the few random fully avoidable deaths is acceptable because its not that often? Kind of like a child sacrifice we have to endure because its somehow compassionate to let crazy people roam the streets and assault people randomly? None of this involves corporate CEOs and is relatively simple to solve. | |||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | culi 2 days ago | parent [-] | ||||||||||||||||
If we want to reduce avoidable deaths, you can get a lot more bang for your buck investing in almost ANYTHING other than this extremely rare event. We've already invested way too much of it. And you're paying for it with MY taxes You are overindexing on it because you watch too much TV. Your kids would be a lot safer and better off if we moved some of our money away from surveillance and put it into cleaning up superfund sites on the NPL https://epa.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=... Look at this map and count how many superfund sites are within a 10 mile radius of you | |||||||||||||||||
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