What I mean to imply is that it is an issue that is naturally fixed by improved development, and that fixing does require development skill, but the organization can hamstring their developers to prevent them fixing the issue even if they could.
State-sanctioned homicide does not seem like justice to me, especially when there are false positives. And taking things into your own hands will just land you in that same prison cell, which your loved ones probably would not appreciate.
I don’t disagree that there’s room for improvement, but I’m hesitant to accept as gospel the misconviction rates we hear about. Japan’s system that you mention, for instance, also boasts a ~99.9% conviction rate [0] and isn’t adversarial in quite the same sense as the US. It seems plausible that, with such powerful norms against acquittal, the justice system may be less than motivated to revisit their judgments regardless of what might come to light later.
Maybe confidence in judgments is a good proxy for quality in judgments, but history seems to offer examples to the contrary.
I worry that we’re quick to assume that all truths are knowable, and it’s just a matter of trying hard to find them out. As amply demonstrated by the endless flow of “true crime” media, sometimes situations are ambiguous, memories unreliable, evidence scant, and reasons mysterious. Sometimes people get away with stuff, sometimes you just have to decide who you believe. Some uncertainty is irreducible: I worry that even a spectacularly well-“fixed” justice system will always have to take decisions on incomplete information.
I think it would be a fantastic idea for the government to surveil road infrastructure. We spend a crap ton of our GDP just on healthcare addressing the negative impact of traffic violence. Not to mention everyone knows someone that has been killed or affected by this. Outright saying the government shouldn’t monitor this is in bad taste.
You can argue that the solution is to stop doubling down on our bad investment, bad that is much less feasible than installing a bunch of traffic cameras.
For those who haven't encountered the term before: "traffic violence" is another way of describing "car accidents" that emphasize that injury due to automobiles is not inevitable and should be worked to be eliminated.
I do find it hard to believe rockson doesn't know anyone who has been involved in a car accident if they live in the US.
Hey, I want to thank you, erikaww, and underbiding for pointing me at a great research topic: a big rock I can turn over and see what's slithering around under there:
How about workplace accidents? They are also not inevitable and should be reduced. Are they "workplace violence"? Clearly not, that already means something else.
That is why it is accurate to call "traffic violence" a propaganda device.
You’ve never been in accident or almost hit by a car? You don’t know anyone that has died that way? Really?
Infinitesimal? It’s one of the leading causes of death among youth on the order of suicide, homicide and drug overdoses. Calling it infinitesimally small is horribly offensive.
It’s a big reason why our life expectancy is lower than peer countries. Again to reiterate, we spend a ton of our GDP just in healthcare to address traffic violence. Modern fire departments mostly address car accidents rather than fires.
You clearly don’t know what you are talking about and you are going to hit a sore spot in many Americans
"Accident" implies a lack of blame. The vast majority of vehicle "accidents" are not.
If you're speeding to pass someone and hit an oncoming car, that's not an accident.
If you're impatient and try to squeeze by a bicycle and hit them, that's not an accident.
If you're texting on your phone and rear-end the car in front of you, that's not an accident, it was a conscious decision.
If your transmission seizes or your wheel fails off so you fly off the road into something (and you haven't been ignoring maintenance on your rust bucket for so long that you should expect this), that's probably an accident. But that's an infinitesimal fraction of vehicle incidents.
Stopping the deliberate debasement and pollution of our language. That's what I'm gaining. Or trying to.
Call it what it is ("traffic accidents"), and we can stop arguing. Other countries have fewer accidents? OK, that's worth talking about. I didn't "miss the nuance" because I'm not responding to that right here.
Or "bad road engineering" if that's what you want to talk about.
Language is living. Get off your high horse. People are allowed to invent and use new words and terms. Language evolves with use, not by people like you holding on to dear life for every little thing.
Inventing inflated words to make something old sound like a fresh crisis is indeed debasement and pollution. I guess you don't know or care what that is.
So don't tell me what to say. You can keep doing it and I can keep calling it out, and there isn't a thing you can do about it.
Funny thing is that there is a near footgun with this go: if you defer and set a non named return in a defer, like cErr, that won’t actually set that variable. Not sure what actually happens in that case but godbolt would tell you. In that case, the error would get swallowed
