[pif]

> The tendency to blame the victim in grade-crossing accidents exasperates cognitive psychologist Green: “That lets the authorities off the hook. Then they don’t have to redesign the system.”

And why should they? Some people die, but how many times more people do cross successfully?

[rsynnott]

I mean, you could say that of practically any safety rule. "Sure, some people die of cholera, but most don't, so continue dumping the sewage into the drinking water".

[mratsim]

And then we have a nuclear incident because "everything we did worked for 30 years so we didn't do maintenance".