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This incident does not seem a common-enough occurrence to change my behavior.

That would be like euthanizing every dog on earth because a person might be killed by one.

~30,000 people are killed by dogs every year.

How many times annually do people have their phones unlocked by police without their consent?

This analogy doesn't work because you're comparing euthanizing dogs to using a secure password instead of face ID, one of which ends a life and the other is a mild inconvenience (we all used to use pins before touch ID was normalized, it takes less than a second to enter a password that you've got down to muscle memory). Yeah, we can't make all our choices in life based on an off chance, but when it's this simple it's easily worthwhile

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