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Originally Posted by Crawford
Which is weird, bc it seems much harder to avoid a traffic fatality/injury than a violent crime fatality/injury. Traffic accidents are broadly dispersed, and it's quite easy to be killed/injured even if you do nothing wrong. If someone runs a red light, your family might die.
Violent crime is geographically highly concentrated and the vast majority of victims know their assailant. Extremely unlikely that beefing idiot teens start shooting at you if you aren't in a rival crew or otherwise linked.
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People are much more likely to be irrationally afraid of flying than driving as well, despite airline travel being much, much safer.
IIRC, studies have suggested that fear is not based on how risky something is but the degree to which you perceive that you have lost control of a situation. When people get behind the wheel, they're under the false impression they are in control of their own destiny, hence they feel safe.
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