alt Hacker NewsI don’t think your analysis is fair, but pointing out details I disagree with misses the forest for the trees.
Look at what lengths you went to in order to justify and defend what is, by your own arguments, the demonstrably less safe option.
I don’t think your analysis is fair, but pointing out details I disagree with misses the forest for the trees.
Look at what lengths you went to in order to justify and defend what is, by your own arguments, the demonstrably less safe option.
Do you think that car seat mandates (up to age 12 in my state) are good policy if the net effect is:
- a small reduction in minor injuries,
- worse childhoods and parenting experiences (difficult to quantify, but real),
- and a few hundred thousand fewer children being born in the first place,
- very few, if any, lives saved?
If yes, then cool - but I strongly disagree.
If no - then I think the evidence and details very much matter, and that's why I was happy to invest my time in them.