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We live in a risky world.
Some risks are obvious and some are not.
If you decide to walk across a busy road with a blindfold on, you are an idiot !
Statisticians will tell you that walking across a busy road with a blindfold on doesn’t necessarily lead to death, but your risks are way lower if you take the blindfold off, open your eyes and look both ways …
30 high risk people died the other day when a boat crashed into rocks in Northern Australia.
The Media went berserk !
“ Whose fault is it ? “ they cried out …
Those ‘boat’ people took enormous risks, but they were prepared to take that risk on the promise of a better life in a far away land, sailing in a leaky boat across the raging oceans full of uncontrollable weather patterns and pirates.
30 of them bet their life on it and lost.
30 other people died that day from diabetes and the effects of being overweight, but they were prepared to take the risks.
And those diabetics are probably risking their children’s lives as well because parents are the # 1 role-models for their children and their grandchildren.
Most kids don’t do what you tell them to do - they do what you do. They copy !
30 other people died on our roads this month, but there are no media headlines about that, and hi-risk, stupid people still complain about ‘speed cameras’ being revenue raisers.
Bottom line is this - if you don’t speed, you don’t get fined.
How many people died this month walking into a pole or walking off a road into a ditch or walking into another person ?
None.
Speed Kills.
And that number on the road sign with the circle around it - that’s the UPPER limit of speed, not the lower limit.
You don’t need to drive yourself and your life 5 km per hour ABOVE that limit !
Speed Kills.
If there were 10 to 20 times the number of speed cameras on our roads, nobody would speed.
If there were speed cameras every 400 metres along freeways, all those idiots who whizzz past me every day going way faster than the limit, they wouldn’t do that - because that causes fines and you have to pay money.
In our world, money means more than most other things. That’s a fact - an interesting fact.
30 other people died today from the effects of smoking cigarettes and using other drugs, but they were willing to take the risks. And 30 more will die tomorrow taking the same risks.
What is that teaching our children ???
Your call …
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