It does, but the devil is in the details. If you FORCE the other guy to act - however they act - in order to improve YOUR risk, you are forcing them to adopt your standard. If you CHOOSE to act - however you act - in order to improve YOUR risk, you are not adopting THEIR standard - they didn't force you to do anything - you are simply enforcing your own standard. It's a subtle difference, but in the world, which is nothing more than a endless list of competing rights and obligations, that's the line we sort of have to follow (and which we follow every day in countless ways).
There's enough people in every society who think their temporary discomfort is on the same level of seriousness as someone else literally dying that we can't rely on just mitigating risks for ourselves, but also for each other. And when it's an actual life or death situation, we have to codify that, if not into law, then the strictest social norms possible so that people whose only precious person is themselves at least stop and think about the consequences before they ruin a life with their negligence. We have to have traffic laws, and you can say stuff like "well, I won't speed, and I'll wear a seat belt, and that's the standard I am enforcing for myself. We can't eliminate risk of death on the road, someone could hit me any minute", and that's all nice and rational, but when you see someone changing lanes like an outlaw and almost hitting someone else, you're not gonna say "well, such is life, risky, but I can't make a person behave like I would behind the wheel after all, and I have taken all the measures I can take to protect myself so I feel at peace with this situation", you're gonna say "oh my fucking god, that son of a bitch."
Well, here where I am from, people do not know how to drive. They do not give a shit about these "traffic laws" or they don't know the laws. In turn, I have to basically be a defensive driver around town. Because people will, turn when I'm turning, speed up when I'm turning, won't use their turn signal, will stop and make a U-turn when you shouldn't make one.
Now imagine how the Cyclists must feel when riding around here. They obviously know the risk is really high, yet they don't care and they don't follow their own rules and laws as well, which is not to be riding in a clustered group, you have to ride in a single file line, most Cyclists don't do this, and end up hogging the roads, or making the cars go more into the other lane just to pass them. We do have designated roads that are both shared with Bicycles and Cars.
This isn't even including the people on one street we call Central, where people whom are homeless, bums, or the drug addicts, all mingle and there is one intersection they love hanging out on and jaywalk on. They obviously don't give a shit. A lot of people Jaywalk here.
We could care all we want about the other and their risks, but why, when they themselves do not care about those risks? Sometimes, all we can do is tend our own garden, while we watch the other destroy their own. All you can do as a person, is do things that will protect yourself.
Because the reality is, people do not give a rats ass about risks, and do not care the same as you do, they don't care about your risk to them. This is reality, and there is nothing you can do to change it. These are things that are out of peoples control. Which is why you should focus on yourself and your community, and not worry about what some other person across the country is risking their own life for. It's basically to Me, unnecessary worry. And that worry should be focused on only you, your family, and community.
This is how Societies have survived through history.
It's only been until the birth of the internet where the world has been able to worry and care about people from the other side of the pond. In turn, this made us humans see, that we are all the same, we are no different, than one another. Our uniqueness is our environment we were raised in. This is how our world is evolving, because people did not care about those on the other side, they only cared and worried about their own garden.
This mindset was not the same as it is today. The modern mindset is a brand new mindset, that includes and is brought on by the connectivity we currently have available that we humans never had the capability to do before this Moment in our history. We didn't realize it, but the internet was a really big leap for mankind, that we ourselves do not know how to conduct ourselves with it and have to learn to adapt.
Risks will always be here, whether one likes it or not. It's balancing the security and the freedoms associated with Risks.
And let me tell you, not many peoples thresholds are high now they got vaccinated. Most do not know or don't care about the science, they trust it enough to take whatever's just so they can be able to go out and play with people. There's people that don't care at all or worry about these things. It's why I feel, Media plays a big role in how people perceive, because they trust what the media is telling them is the truth.
Trust goes a long way in how one perceives. It's amazing how ones world view and belief relies on that trust.
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