Reply #40: Thank you for confirming my point.

[Tesha]

It's the exact same chain of thought that leads so
many people to buy SUVs: they make the choice thinking
that they will be safer in the bigger vehicle, but as
every vehicle on the road becomes an SUV, the advantage
is lost. And, in fact, in an "even match" or especially
all on its own, the SUV is (demonstrably) a less safe
vehicle than an equivalent car.

So the ultimate effect of a bunch of individuals each
thinking of themselves is to (possibly) make themselves
momentarily safer (compared to the rest of us) but the
ultimate effect is to make us all a lot less safe.

It's the same situation as with the proliferation
of guns that so many of the folks in this forum
strongly advocate for.

Tesha