The Empiricist

Grodscorp, post ANZAC day.

…the country has spent the weekend getting misty-eyed over ANZAC day.
That’s fine and everything, but the reality is that many, many more Australians have died at work than in any war, and that globally the numbers of people dying in their workplace is staggering. Many more Australian families will have lost loved ones to the dangers of ordinary jobs than to the guns of the Taliban.

What’s wrong with this logic? Here’s a hint: compare the number of families with a loved one in a job against the number of families with a loved one fighting the Taliban.
By the same reasoning, nursing homes are death traps, more dangerous than any war zone. And don’t ever play lawn bowls, or you’ll be tempting fate.

The truth is, people work, and people die. Sometimes they happen at the same time. End of story. We ‘re not living in nineteenth-century London.