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We shouldn't trade safety for convenience. Especially not with something that is taking over 3000 lives every day - *preventable* deaths. We don't care about the common good, we just don't want the convenience of our lives interrupted by lowering the maximum speed limit to 30mph.

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Point of order - its more like 95 people/day, not 3,000.

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CDC says it's ~3700/day globally

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Using global statistics for this is *incredibly* misleading.

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...how so? It's a metaphor for a global pandemic.

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I assumed you were talking about the US. Most places with high rates of traffic fatalities struggle with basic infrastructure and enforcement; a speed limit wouldn't save many lives in India, Brazil or Vietnam.

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Lower speed limits in Idaho aren’t going to reduce traffic deaths in Africa, where the rates are 40 times higher per vehicle.

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You had a point until it turned out your metric is literally 97% lower than implied.

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That's nothing, 4k in a global scale daily is literally nothing

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Damn that’s like basically nothing, way fewer than I would’ve predicted