• Riven@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    2 months ago

    Reminds me of how people were claiming, technically rightish, that seat belts injured a ton of people when they were first made legal way back when.

    Like yea, injuries due to car crashes spiked a ton that first year but that’s cause people stopped fucking dying in car crashes thanks to them.

    • Notyou@sopuli.xyz
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      2 months ago

      Exactly. Head injuries also went up in the military after the introduction of the metal helmets in WW1. Some extra critical thinking might tell you those head injuries would have been deaths of not for the helmets.