We could reduce this risk by wearing helmets while driving, yet no one does.
Arguments like this, while strictly about consistency, tend to implicitly take the correctness of the status quo for granted. Unless you have thoroughly evaluated all of your current habits, this is unjustified. I’d prefer to be inconsistent and sometimes right than consistently wrong.
That’s a fair take; it reminds me of alcohol and tobacco, which were largely “grandfathered” in. We probably wouldn’t allow them if they were discovered today.
Arguments like this, while strictly about consistency, tend to implicitly take the correctness of the status quo for granted. Unless you have thoroughly evaluated all of your current habits, this is unjustified. I’d prefer to be inconsistent and sometimes right than consistently wrong.
That’s a fair take; it reminds me of alcohol and tobacco, which were largely “grandfathered” in. We probably wouldn’t allow them if they were discovered today.