“When you say the word ‘accidents,’ you make it sound like it couldn’t have been avoided”https://laist.com/2020/01/03/car_crash_accident_traffic_violence_language.php …
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“An accident is often understood to be unpredictable—a chance occurrence or an “act of God”—and therefore unavoidable. However, most injuries and their precipitating events are predictable and preventable”https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1120417/ …
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Replying to @thijsniks @johanatan
I can understand your objection to the use of “violence,” but “accident” is just as inaccurate
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If the point of language is to convey meaning, then using “accidents” fails at that. Sure, individual cases might be unintended, but a flawed system predetermines fatal outcomes (road fatalities in the US are going up, instead of down https://www.itf-oecd.org/sites/default/files/docs/irtad-road-safety-annual-report-2018_2.pdf …)pic.twitter.com/qzR52Ir8cl
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I don’t understand what your objection is. The point of not calling them “accidents” anymore is because these aren’t unexpected. We have actively designed a system where we know people will die and the U.S. is unique in this compared to other developed countries.
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