[BaculumMeumEst]

It seems contradictory to care immensely about traffic safety but lament the idea of wearing a vest to cross the street. It seems like something that logically we should probably already be doing. Self driving cars are just making it more obvious.

[zahlman]

>It seems contradictory to care immensely about [school] safety but lament the idea of wearing a [bulletproof] vest to [enter] the [school].

(Or be subjected to a metal detector screening, etc.)

No, it's perfectly consistent. The argument is that the underlying problem shouldn't exist to any significant extent in the first place, and doesn't need to (and doesn't in many other parts of the world).

A lot of traffic safety issues in North America derive from road design, which has historically prioritized the needs and wants of car drivers above everyone else. It is not "contradictory" to reject a solution that entails doing even more to accommodate cars.

[throwaway4220]

Consider what you’re saying - you can’t walk on the street you live on without a vest

[CalRobert]

Similarly, we should be sending kids to school in bulletproof vests. Safety first!

It is the obligation of the vehicle operator not to kill people, not the obligation of the person walking not to be killed.

[Brian_K_White]

good god no. entirely backwards.

This is saying it's your responsibility to be ugly to be safe from rapists.