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There is no "paradox". C++ is dangerous because of memory management and awful semantics (undefined behavior/etc), both of which are orthogonal to static typing.

It's a bit like saying that there's a paradox: everyone says that flying is safer than driving, but experimental test pilots die at a much higher rate than school bus drivers!

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Paradoxes don't exist in reality. It's a figure of speech based on something that was perceived as a paradox. This much is obvious.

Much of the fervor around dynamically typed languages in the past was driven largely by the dichotomy between c++ and other dynamically typed languages.

Nowadays it's more obvious what the differentiator was. But the point im making here is that type checking is NOT the key differentiator here.

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