Posted by jamesgibbon on
URL: https://www.shado-forum.com/Re-Digest-Number-1099-tp1500798p1500828.html

"Stuart" wrote:

> Those thousands of people are killed by drunk drivers, their own
> speeding and not wearing their seat belts. We don't need to spend
> billions on "safer transport infrastructure" (whatever that means)
> we just need better driving instructors and to start treating
> drunk drivers as the murderers they are.
>

Nonsense. Thousands of road injuries and fatalities that are
caused by poor road design and lack of facilities. Sometimes, human
lives are literally accounted in numbers of pounds. A council
somewhere in the UK refused to install a pedestrian bridge on the
grounds that it would cost too much, despite the fact that several
people died crossing the road in question at that point every year.

Someone worked out the value they had placed on human lives, a
couple of hundred thousand pounds each, if I remember correctly.

I'm not suggesting that billions should be spend on safer transport
infrastructure (get hold of a dictionary if the term is still
troubling you - all three words will most likely be in there), just
that spending many more billions on preventing a handful of humans
from being abducted and killed doesn't make relative economic
sense.

However, I concede that the potential future threat from the aliens
was unknown, and could have become considerably more serious.