Kurt R. Todoroff wrote:


People die in jet fighters every year.

The rate of people getting injured or dying in automobiles every year is higher yet.

You are beginning to sound like the "engineers" arguing about runway
construction. Half of them know what they are talking about, but don't
understand the issue, and the other half don't either.

If you are going to lump auto injuries in there with auto fatalities, it
confirms this reader's suspicions that your stand is more ideological
than knowledgeable, or else you are being lazy and not giving your
readers much respect.

If you have hard data on peace-time fighter death rates over the last
decade and auto death rates over the same period, please provide it. And
don't forget to relate the two in the same way, e.g., hours flown/driven
or miles..., or sorties/trips, or some common denominator.

So far, we know what you believe but we still don't know what's true,
from reading your posts. You may also want to stop differentiating
between danger and risk, at least until you get the more important raw
numbers problem straightened out. Very few people here give a rat's ass
what insurance adjusters and statisticians argue about over a beer at
the end of the day.


Jack