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I think more people would belt up if they have animations of people cracking necks or getting sucked out of window in the preflight video.

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Probably would result in less people flying, more people driving, resulting in more deaths overall.

I don't understand this weird line of thinking. Don't do positive X because some people might respond to it in a weird way and do neutral Y.

Cattling statistics like this is silly.

If you showed fat people images of obesity and said that they'd be healthier if they lost their weight, you would also cattle the statistics and look at how many fat people decided to suicide versus how many took the advice (or didn't)? What a dumb way to construct advice.

I mean if it caused a spike of suicides, I’d find a new message.

Yeah and that's incredibly dumb.

So, combine it with pictures of what happens when you don't wear a seatbelt in a car.

But this does not happen to you because you are an exceptionally good driver.

That might make the pax more nervous and unlikely to fly more.

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