Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder9.news.weretis.net!news.quux.org!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Catrike Ryder Newsgroups: rec.bicycles.tech Subject: Re: Helmet efficacy test Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2025 04:46:47 -0400 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 78 Message-ID: <35le0k1r2qt5h0tpo795kjgd0vbkurprfd@4ax.com> References: <0ar70khusn41aijlb885r0hn57u0ccdos3@4ax.com> <92bc0klk942kpaa5uqlfi8li5bvf1vn77f@4ax.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2025 10:46:52 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="2d1341936d9dfb28e1b22eca57a3ca99"; logging-data="266854"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18fBRu2uv/+j4JACZ7Fb731TZuLf2PFVVg=" User-Agent: ForteAgent/8.00.32.1272 Cancel-Lock: sha1:u5zNGBnDZL3NUcCa5YgsXQFfRAc= Bytes: 4472 On Mon, 21 Apr 2025 22:42:31 -0400, Frank Krygowski wrote: >On 4/21/2025 5:14 PM, AMuzi wrote: >> On 4/21/2025 12:43 PM, Frank Krygowski wrote: >>> On 4/21/2025 1:26 PM, AMuzi wrote: >>>> On 4/21/2025 12:22 PM, Catrike Ryder wrote: >>>>> On Mon, 21 Apr 2025 11:01:48 -0400, Frank Krygowski >>>>> wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> On 4/21/2025 7:44 AM, Catrike Ryder wrote: >>>>>>> ...I, a tourist, had >>>>>>> to explain to taxi drivers that I wanted to go where there were no >>>>>>> tourists. Unfortunately, that resulted in some late night walks back >>>>>>> to the boat. I would not do that again in today's world. >>>>>> >>>>>> SO much fear! >>>>> >>>>> Really? So, at your age, you'd be perfectly happy to walk, alone at >>>>> night, through unfamiliar neighborhoods in a foreign country? >>>>> >>>>> If you answer "yes," you're either a liar or a moron. >>>> >>>> +1 >>>> >>>> https://www.azfamily.com/2025/04/19/man-rips-victims-eye- out-random- >>>> attack-east-phoenix/ >>> >>> That's a typical response from you, Andrew. You found _one_ scary >>> story, out of how many peaceful, unremarkable nighttime walks every >>> day around the world? You can't really be pretending that incident is >>> representative of the actual level of risk! How many attacks per >>> million nighttime walks do you think actually occur? >>> >>> That's aside from the fact that the timid tricyclist specified >>> "foreign country." But Phoenix is in _this_ country. I'm pretty sure >>> the foreign countries that I've visited have all been shown to be >>> safer, on average, than America. >>> >>> >> That was in the morning news, one of several similar across the nation >> this weekend. As usual. >> >> https://www.aol.com/news/alabama-dad-jacob-couch-dies-050914741.html? >> guccounter=1 >> >> https://cwbchicago.com/2025/04/man-gets-4-years-for-shooting-younger- >> brother-he-was-tired-of.html >> >> https://nypost.com/2025/04/19/us-news/brute-who-hit-ny-post-reporter- >> still-on-lam-after-double-stab/ > >Yes, and you're digging back into events that happened as much as four >years ago. > >If you dig deeply enough, you can find many thousands of such stories. >What you're ignoring is the denominator - the 300+ million people in >America, almost all of whom made it through the weekend with no assault, >no trauma at all. Many of them owned guns and had them in their homes. >You're pretending the half-a-handful of scary stories you managed to >dredge up by internet search are the norm. They are not, and pretending >they are common just adds to the paranoia and fear of the timid crowd. Pretending that having a gun in your home is dangerous just adds to the paranoia and fear of the timid crowd. >It's as silly as the former Safe Kids Inc. advice: "No child under age >10 should be allowed to cross a street alone" or "No child should play >outside without adult supervision." Another Krygowski strawman. -- C'est bon Soloman