• grahamsz
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    11 year ago

    I have no idea, but hiring someone for a job that has a 1 in 20 chance of killing them seems fundamentally immoral - especially given the massive financial imbalance.

    It’s certainly a good philosophical question though

    • @wahming@monyet.cc
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      11 year ago

      Yeah, taking it to the extreme, the same logic applies to delivery guys on scooters and motorcycles. There’s definitely no good answer, except maybe that they accepted the risk

      • grahamsz
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        21 year ago

        Looking at it more, there seems to be an entire field of Risk Ethics associated with this.

        Still the most dangerous job in the US is a Commercial Fisherman with a risk of death of 132 per 100,000. That’s a very long way from the risk of dying on Everest or K2.