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If airplanes used this logic, likely at least hundreds more would have died over the last decades. Accident rates are even going up, because of logic like yours. Yeah planes are fine most of the time, when the long tail involves safety concerns (that wouldn’t have otherwise happened) making money on people using your product becomes unethical without mutually agreed upon safety regulation, ideally motivated by voters instead of special interest groups


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