"It's distracting, some people can't wear them without constantly adjusting them and that's more dangerous" "It gives people a false sense of security and might cause them to act more dangerously" "What if a few people find it hard to breathe while wearing one"
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Not having a seatbelt or a helmet or goggles would not make me "more aware of my vulnerability" I simply do not have that awareness and if the world weren't built with constant passive safety tolerances everywhere, I would die
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Maybe if I'd had better doctors as a kid and we lived in a less ableist country I would be able to show you an official diagnosis and call this accommodation for disability But you know what, who cares Nobody should be punished with death for fucking up
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It doesn't matter whether they fuck up consistently because they're biologically wired to do so or they never fuck up except for this one time due to a series of wild coincidences Punishing someone for either one is terrible
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It's Rawls' veil of ignorance, if we can't make the world a safer place for people who fuck up then what's the point of all of this
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And this argument is worse for an infectious disease, where it's NOT ABOUT YOU GETTING INFECTED YOU aren't the one who gets punished for your risky behavior, the rest of the world does You're taking people hostage to your arrogant need to prove your competence
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Demanding constant perfection on threat of mutilation is more likely to promote anxiety than perfection.
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I don't know, the quality of my episodes has improved since they started threatening to cut off my hands. :p
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We all are. Not everyone acknowledges it. Those who don't are bigots.
Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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Software developers are well aware of how stupid humans, including themselves, are and there's a corresponding massive amount of effort into preventing that creating bad code. (But it's still not enough in practice)
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One of the major obstacles to addressing that is that as you throw more and more sophisticated tools and theory at trying to make code that's all of 1) safe, 2) correct and 3) performant, then... the programmers themselves aren't smart enough to follow and actually use the tools
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