Your car. Just think about the forces and mechanisms invovled for this to happen. Every single day we travel at 100km/h in our 2ton at least metal box surrounded by hundreds of other people in their equally large and heavy and fast machines in a space barely wide enough to react in case of an emergency(not even considering if most are actually ready to act in such a case. All of this with realistically little training. Not to mention most people don’t really pay attention while driving and certainly don’t consider the life of others while doing so. It’s so impersonal and dangerous. If it was a never heard of concept, individual cars driven by any normal person would be considered laughably stupid at the very best.
Fossil fuel pollution.
Ladders. Most serious workplace accidents in a lot of trades can be linked back to falling from a hight. Don’t be cocky when up a ladder, even little ones.
Ladders are legitimately one of the leading causes of death and serious injury among otherwise healthy middle aged adults. A basic fall protection system with some flex rope and a climbing harness can be had for around $100. I don’t care if my neighbors think I’m a dweeb, I’m not dying for clean gutters.
A friend of mine’s father died falling from a ladder on her birthday while decorating for her party.
That is horrifying, I hope she’s managed to recover at least a bit from that
Can confirm - fell from one this week. ;(
RIP to this man
Gas stoves. Disasters waiting to happen with people sometimes forgetting to turn them off.
You know, it boggles my mind why stoves in some countries don’t come with thermoswitch. The decades old ones here come with it here. Either fire keeps the valve open via this thermoswitch or if fire goes out gas valve is shut off. Danger gone.
Plastics
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Two way roads.
If they didn’t exist today and someone came up with the brilliant idea of having people in control of machines (cars or bikes) moving in opposite directions at 50mph, separated by a few feet and a painted line, it would be dismissed immediately.
Motorcycles, for the same reason
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Capitalism. Most of the other (daily, specific) dangers out there are dangerous because someone’s making money off putting other people in danger. I’m including the military industrial complex, but also regular industries and the exploitation of vulnerable populations.
What would you call the military industrial complex of CCCP?
Edit: I love that one reply is claiming it’s self defense, the other is claiming they’re capitalist
…they’re capitalist. Tell me you’ve never lived there without telling me
Necessary to prevent invasions by imperialists and capitalists who feel threatened by successful socialist models or who are looking to exploit other countries.
Imagine how much more they could have accomplished if they didn’t have to fear the very real threat of foreign invasion. Remember, they were invaded by foreign powers shortly after the revolution in 1918.
Idk if we use capitalism so much as we get used…
At least here in a very anti-public transit US city: Automobiles
Short of war zones, they are the most common cause of unnatural death almost everywhere.
Corn Syrup.
Fast food
I’d say electricity. Even with all the safety precautions we have when using our electrical devices, there’s still so much that can go wrong
Here’s the thing with electricity: it’s invisible.
If you’re using a power saw, you can see the blade. You can see other cars (obviously there’s blind spots). You can see a burning flame on your stove, or maybe hear/smell the gas.
You may have a box and know that there’s electricity inside, but you have no idea if it’s wired correctly. You have no idea if the breaker is shut, or if there’s batteries inside. We’ve engineered a lot of controls to keep things safe like LEDs to show it’s on and ground wires on all the metal bits (thank you underwriter laboratories). But all of those can fail and you can still get shocked because electricity is essentially invisible and requires tools (multimeter) to inform you that it’s dead.
None of your senses will let you know if something with electricity is safe. It’s a gamble every single time you touch something electrical. You can be seriously hurt with voltages as low as 30v, assuming worst case conditions like you just finished swimming in the ocean.
Using electrical equipment is like walking through a construction site blindfolded while someone yells directions at you from afar.
Your car.
