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Well since you're against me anyway, let me double down: current airline regulations are way, way too strict in every way and are based entirely on an irrational overreaction people have to aircraft incidents because flying feels unnatural.

Increasing airline deaths to even over 1000 per year for marginally increased comfort would be worth it.

If anyone actually cared about saving lives then all focus would be on motoring, not planes. Planes should not be as safe as they are.

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No, I'm not against you. I'm against an idea that is a dangerous gateway to certain death.

The current airline regulations are not way to strict. The current airline regulations are what they are to ensure, through lessons learned the hard way, that certain steps are taken to no make avoidable mistakes that have cost many lives in the past.

As for the lives lost to motoring, that's a completely unrelated problem.

It isn’t really completely unrelated though. I often drive for 6 hours between cities due to speed, comfort, and cost. I am certainly more likely to die for it.

> Increasing airline deaths to even over 1000 per year for marginally increased comfort would be worth it.

You're aware that if there are 2-6 major airline crashes per year, many people would skip flying all together, killing the industry in the process, right?

Yeah, which is unfortunate. Maybe in the distant future cultural perceptions of flying will change enough that this is no longer true.

We should apply more rules to cars. The solution clearly isnt to relax airplane regulation.

> an irrational overreaction people have to aircraft incidents because flying feels unnatural

Do you have anything to back this statement up?

Not really. I feel it's sort of self-evident if you look at how the media covers aircraft accidents and how people are afraid of flying and talk about it. I don't know how to prove it though.

If you have another theory I'd love to hear it, but I think it's pretty clear that the public overreacts to airline deaths for some reason at least.

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