brokenpromise's comments

> My point here is, when I'm driving a car, I can control my personal risk.

Yeah, if you never looked at the evidence or psychology then I suppose you would come to that conclusion.

> With flying, most of the risk factors are completely out of my hands.

Why do you think flying is so much safer than driving?

That's not how risk works, though. The probability of dying from a gunshot to the head are basically 1, but the probability of that event happening is basically 0. So it wouldn't make sense to never go outside because getting shot in the head is almost certain death; the risk that matters is of the event itself happening, not the outcome given that the event has already occurred.

I hope you haven't driven since 2012 as well because that's orders of magnitude more dangerous. For any single flight, the probability of dying is vanishingly small.

Statistics are your friend.

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