Is the death rate of any of these occupations you cited the same as the TT ? Take a sample of 3 hours fishing of 200 fishermen over a one week period and how many of them would be die during that 3 hour sample. Apply the same logic to the Chinese factory. Is there a rate of one in every hundred of these individuals killed every three working hours ? I think you'll find there isn't.
Now consider this. If you lived in a house adjacent to nasty bend on a country road... and up to 4 people were killed outside your door every week... would adopt an ambivolent stance and say :
" I am happy we live in a free country where you can still, by your own accord, do something crazy... It's stupid, it's dangerous, and the guys that do it are fully mental. But so what! that is THEIR decision! "
Would you walk away from somebody about to commit suicide by jumping for a building and say it sucks to be you... go ahead and kill yourself... I'm not bothered.
We may enjoy the virtues of a free society, but here in Britain we also have the right to live in a society that cares about the welfare of others... even if they chose not to do so themselves.
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