What’s most important?

“If you could change one thing that would save hundreds of thousands of lives, would you do it?“

“Well, yeah?“

“Great.”

“Make it so cars cannot travel more than 10 miles per hour.”

If we were to do such a thing it would no doubt reduce the amount of accidents and save countless lives going forward. Except we all tolerate a certain level of risk. And for ours it’s a much higher speed limit.

We could change the fines and make mandatory jail time for breaking traffic laws but we don’t cause as a culture we decide that is not how we want to govern ourselves.

And it isn’t just with speed limits. It the same with mask wearing or the food industry.

We all allow a certain level of risk but if we go to extreme measures we would reduce the toll on life. But we don’t always value life the most in the decisions we make. Despite what we think.