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by jpollock 717 days ago
People drown in swimming pools all the time.
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Anon84 717 days ago
People drown in bathtubs all the time...

There are only two obvious ways to minimize risk: teach people to swim or prevent people from swimming. Guess which one is more cost-effective?

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jpollock 717 days ago
Since you can't stop them from swimming, it's teaching them to swim.

The GP post was "stop them from going into dangerous areas", which is why I pointed out _swimming_pools_ would meet the definition of "dangerous".

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Apocryphon 717 days ago
My point is that limiting swimming in certain areas is hardly the same thing as banning all swimming, it just feels like there is an alarmism about alarmism and perhaps there can be nuance and self-reflection from all sides of the debate.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40784425

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