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What other engineering field has acceptable death rates? We design roads EXPECTING people to die on them. Insane.

>"What other engineering field has acceptable death rates?"

I'd say virtually all of them, in some form or fashion. Everything has a tradeoff. There is an acceptable death rate electrocution, if there wasn't we wouldn't allow our homes to have electricity.

> What other engineering field has acceptable death rates?

All of them?

I can't think of any engineering area which has a mandate of guaranteeing it will be 100% impossible to have an accident with the product, or it doesn't get built. Can you?

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