"Even one death is too many" logic is BS

Rush Limbaugh popularized a simple irrefutable argument against the minimum wage. If someone thinks the min wage ought to be $10 an hour, you agree. Then say, “It ought to be $15.” When they agree you say, “It ought to be $25.” When they finally reach the point that they say, "well $50 an hour is just too much," you have them. Why is $50 too much? Wouldn’t we all be better off making $50 an hour?

Dana Loesch uses this argument in reveres on a couple of CNN simpletons who don’t even know they have been schooled. If the argument is that a 30 round magazine contains too many rounds to kill too many people, Loesch asks how many dead children are acceptable?  The answer is of course zero. Then Loesch says, so you do want to get rid of all the guns, because if even one death is too many, you’d have to ban muskets as well.

But this “one child’s death is too many” argument has always bothered me. If that were truly the case we’d put our kids in bubbles and hover over them 24-7. Wait, we already do.

Anyone who does not believe in miracles need look no further than any 18 year old boy. Lex has noted on this page before that, given all the things that can wrong, from the complexity of the human genome at conception, choke hazards, electricity, water, animals, disease, bikes, cars, motorcycles, and yes guns etc., it truly is a miracle that any kid manages to make it to age 18. The human race should have died out thousands of years ago. But, somehow here we are.

If “one death were too many” we’d ban driving, swimming pools, plastic buckets that hold more than half a gallon, sharp objects, step ladders, airplanes, cars, bicycles and on and on. If the “one death is too many” logic held, we’d all have to live in a maximum security prison where we’d be locked up for 23 hours a day.  That Mr. and Mrs. America is the Lib definition of utopia.

The sad fact is that we tolerate risk and death everyday to live free lives. Demo-Dopes cannot stand it. Nanny B wants to substitute his judgment for our own and the people of NY NY seem to think that that is OK.  How long will it be before they dodgeball in the schools?  Wait, they already have.

If that is too depressing for an Easter Monday, try this story of living in a “gun free zone.” Really why would anyone need a gun in Chicago?