• Manticore@lemmy.nz
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    8 hours ago

    Lol, well I probably would because I don’t know what that is. And it sounds like an artificial sweetener.

    But I get your point. Humans aren’t good at feeling out chronic ‘mundane risk’ and significantly deemphasise it in favour if acute, ‘dramatic risk’.

    Much as how 9/11s death toll permanently transformed America politically and culturally on multiple levels, whereas the severity of far greater numbers of vehicular (or firearm) deaths are accepted as unavoidable facts of life.