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suffertunity t1_jbxwkxh wrote

Reply to comment by Playful-Translator49 in Shots fired on Green Line Metro train, suspect flees at Navy Yard: MTPD | WJLA by Yaratam

Good, even if 100x as many people died in violence on the metro as in reality it would still be less deadly than driving. Our tendency to focus on metro crime on this sub gives people a really skewed sense of reality.

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__main__py t1_jbxymjm wrote

I really dislike cars, but acting as if shootings on metro are no big deal because traffic is kind of looney tunes.

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PreposterisG t1_jby2zl9 wrote

It can be simultaneously true that 1) involved parties should be addressing crime on/around public transit and 2) thinking about lifestyle risks relatively (for example driving vs public transit).

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suffertunity t1_jby30ah wrote

From a purely rational perspective, yes it is comparatively no big deal compared to other things we don't care about. Sometimes rationality does seem "looney tunes" as you put it.

From an emotional perspective, shootings on the metro are scary. I get that and your emotions are valid. But I'm just defending the people who don't care because they're technically correct not to.

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swampoodler t1_jbygj4i wrote

Bold to assume your perspective is purely rational.

Seems irrational to ignore increasing violence on Metro. Less people who find it safe, the more people who will drive.

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suffertunity t1_jc06til wrote

On the contrary, the fact that people find driving less dangerous despite the fact that it's objectively far more dangerous is proof that their is not a direct relation between actual violence and how safe people find something.

What does make people feel unsafe on the metro and drive is redditors flipping out about every time a crime occurs anywhere on the metro.

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swampoodler t1_jc07awz wrote

I’m pretty sure people having their own experiences of filth and creep on the Metro makes people wary of the Metro.

But you believe what you want, my dude.

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suffertunity t1_jc07reo wrote

Well I've been in 1 serious car accident and have personally witnessed 3 other separate car accidents that had people carted off in ambulances afterward.

Can't say I've ever witness a shooting on the metro. But maybe that's just me.

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swampoodler t1_jc08bi5 wrote

Potomac Ave literally just had a shooting a month ago.

So yeah my dude count yourself lucky. Getting more wild to ride every day.

Cars are dangerous but that doesn’t take away from the absolute fact that Metro is getting worse in regard to safety. People are going to feel that, and decide to take an Uber / Lyft / etc instead when they can, or use their personal vehicles if they have one.

DC needs to up its police presence inside Metro stations and keep public transit safe to ride.

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drr71-2 t1_jbz7w0x wrote

Using your "logic", we can also not care about the homeless, children's hunger, and shelter animals....wow.... This is great advice....apathy absolves us of any worries!! I'm off to dump my used oil in the Chesapeake Bay!!!

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suffertunity t1_jc084tb wrote

First of all, the only "care" shown to the homeless on this site or most media around DC is to complain about them. And unlike metro shootings, there's lots of homeless in DC, it's an actual ongoing disaster affecting thousands of people on a daily basis.

But instead of being concerned about that, this sub is all about making sure everyone is aware of every criminal incident that occurs in a 10 mile radius.

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drr71-2 t1_jc140w7 wrote

Nah.... don't go changing your apathetic ways on me just after I decided to be like you!! I'm now looking at the homeless, littering, and shelter animals "from a purely rational perspective" .... like you. You said, if something "is comparatively no big deal compared to the other things we don't care about." that we are "technically correct" not to care. With the war in Ukraine, climate change, national debt, etc., then we're right not to be concerned about things like the homeless. Thank you for this new way of looking at the world and for defending me for not caring.

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poobly t1_jbyhn40 wrote

~35 people died due to cars in 2022. Guns are WAY worse.

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suffertunity t1_jc07bn0 wrote

313 people were killed on local roads in the DC region in 2022. And 0 people were killed in the incident referred to in the post.

The fact this your comment is upvoted 7 times (probably because no one recognizes that it's off by an order of magnitude) in response to my -34 comment is proof that people, and probably r/washingtondc redditors in particular, have an extremely inaccurate understanding of the relative risks of driving vs. the metro.

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tp3pd t1_jby5fab wrote

There’s probably more posts about carjacking and related shootings.

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