@TheKeatingFive
Most traffic accidents would be preventable by drivers not being stupid (dangerous or careless driving) but I'd love to know how you'd easily prevent this
You could set a much lower speed limit across the board and particularly in urban areas. You could have substantial fines for violations and a one strike and you’re out rule if you break the law. You could test people every year.
That’s just off the top of my head. Nothing like as extreme as picking down large chunks of the globe and it would save many lives. But we don’t care enough to do that.
Some of those things, like lower speed limits, have been seriously advocated for by some too.
The fact is we often could do more, and we have to make choices about what is worthwhile, and that involves a value judgement.
And it's always part of that judgement that 100% of people die. Younger people often from things like accidents, but the elderly die from things like cancer, heart disease, stroke, and very often the frail elderly die of things like flu, small infections, and pneumonia (called "the old person's friend" which is interesting and worth thinking about.)
This is the problem with people just saying that well, we can reduce Civid deaths by x, y, or z, and if we can we have an obligation to do so. It's a cop out, there are all kinds of things we could do to prevent certain types of death, but in every case there is a weighing of all kinds of factors. I personally think that driving fast is a lot less important than some of the things we are contemplating giving up now - the only thing that makes the latter plausible is if it is short term.
But pretending as if anyone making a judgement weighing the effects is a bad person is being pretty unreasonable since we all do it all the time.