It’s not a personal attack, buddy. I think that safety systems should account for human recklessness, and mitigate the effects of that recklessness. You sure seem to be arguing against that point, and if so, you don’t place as a high a premium on human life as I do. Preserving life, and preventing death, are primary…

Sure, the median/modal outcome of any given car trip is not a rollover. Hell, the median/modal outcome of an accident is not a rollover. But there are still something like 180,000 of them a year, which seems frequent enough that automobile safety systems ought to be able to protect vehicle occupants in case of such an…

I’m not wishing for anything. I am pointing out the flaws in your argument. I think if you can make something safer to mitigate the catastrophic consequences of human recklessness, that is preferable to just letting people die. Put another way, you can’t force people to never ever be reckless, but you can design…

I think industry’s ability to successfully fight back and lobby against regulations in the public interest, including literal life saving regulation, in pursuit of squeezing out a little bit more profit, is actually something pretty big to see here. Even though it’s business as usual right now, it doesn’t have to be. 

Any reasonable safety system takes ordinary human behavior into account. Or, to put it another way, if humans were capable of behaving rationally and prudently all of the time, you wouldn’t really need robust safety systems.

Short answer: No. Long answer: “Sufficient” for what?

You unbelievable moron, I never even said “robbing the server.”

Look, I’m no stranger to trying to put a noble sheen on selfish impulses. If you have convinced yourself that you’re anything but a piece of shit asshole because you don’t tip, I’m happy for you. Although the fact that you seem to come in here on every article about tipping to try to convince everyone who tips that…

They have to make up the difference to the minimum wage, and even then it gets dicey.

There’s still an element of a desire to control here. At the end of the day, “I can’t reward great service” and “I can’t punish poor service” are inevitably two sides of the same coin. And if the responses here are self-reported, well, I’m not terribly surprised that a lot of people chose to present their reticence as…

What is the evidence that he is repentant?

If they couldn’t get anyone to come forward, they didn’t have him dead to rights! If the only thing that was circulating were blind items, then by definition they weren’t even naming him as the perpetrator!  All there were were rumors.  When has AV Club gone after someone for less than blind items and absolutely zero…

Credible accusations from who? There was not a single public first person account, anonymous or otherwise, of his behavior, until that NYT report came out. There were just rumors and speculation, much of which didn’t name him.

This is an amazing fictional narrative you’ve spun here.  Nice work!

I wonder if it might be that one of the most popular and most influential candidates invited her along and she went, and probably didn’t have a ton of control over the guest list.

Of course they were tongue-in-cheek.  They’re jokes.  They made you laugh.  Great!  They’re supposed to do that.  Again, they’re jokes.  That they made you laugh, or that they were “tongue in cheek” doesn’t make them okay.

Wait, is AV Club allowed to have an opinion on who influential people decide to give platforms to, or are you trying to cancel AV Club?

Okay, thanks for the copy and paste job! Whether you think the article is exaggerating or distorting the results of the study it is reporting on, the key aspect of the straw man fallacy is that last part you didn’t highlight, that it ATTACKS THE EXTREME DISTORTION. This article is not presenting a straw man argument.…

I mean, unless you think there’s no air pollution in the U.S., I’m not sure why you think you can’t reasonably extrapolate the results from this study to think that driving with your windows down in the U.S. increases your exposure to air pollution.

That’s not what a straw man argument is.