You're engaging in bad faith. You're arguing against straw man claims I never made, while ignoring the actual arguments I did make.
From
Reuters: "A record 219 people were victims of bear attacks, six of them fatal, in the 12 months through March 2024," while according to the
national police agency Japan had 2,663 vehicle deaths in 2024. Sounds like I should be more worried about cars.
I engaged in bad faith because your argument is fundamentally retarded. Arguing that precautions shouldn't have been taken against bear attacks just because there are other dangerous things in our daily life is not the slam dunk argument you seem to think it is. By your logic, we shouldn't have pedestrian crossings, mosquito nets, etc - you know, the measures that have been put in place to reduce the risk of those other dangerous things. But fine, I'll address the figures you quoted.
Yes, there were 219 attacks from April 2023 to March 2024, but what you failed to mention in your
incredibly disingenuous representation of the data is the fact that that figure is more than the previous two years combined, and is the highest recorded figure ever. Bear attacks have increased so much recently that the Japanese government has started allowing hunters to shoot bears that appear in populated areas. I'm used to you people misrepresenting data to better fit your argument, but holy shit that one was egregious.
Your point about cars is just the cherry on top of the fuckwit cake. Firstly, a cursory search shows that there were about 62 million cars in Japan as of March 2024, in comparison to 56,000 bears (we could use a much lower number given the actual distribution of bears across populated areas, but let's use the figure that gives your argument the best chance here). Let's put those numbers onto the same scale so that an actual comparison can be made:
If there were 2663 car-related deaths, with a total of 62 million cars at the time, that gives a number of deaths per car of 0.000043. Shifting that to a number that makes more sense, that's 4.3 deaths per 100,000 cars. Using the same scale for bears: 219 deaths, with 56,000 bears, that's 0.0039 attacks per bear, or 391 attacks per 100,000 bears. Or to put it another way, on a per-unit basis that makes bears almost 100 times more dangerous than cars. Now this comparison still doesn't make much sense, but it's an illustration of how dumb your comparison was. The reality is that most people will encounter at least one car every day, with bear encounters being quite rare by comparison. To put it a way you might understand: would you be more afraid of encountering one car, or one bear? If you are in close proximity with a bear, you are in
far more imminent danger than if you're in close proximity with a car.
And even beyond all of that, the fundamental point remains. You're trying to drag a braindead, reductive generalisation about
American cops into a Japanese comedy manga, just because there was an interaction with a cop. That is purely performative outrage, for the sake of virtue signalling. Not every depiction of a cop is a commentary on American social issues. Sometimes it's just an awkward guy trying to make sure a couple of kids don't get mauled by a bear.
Maybe learn to slow down a bit, think critically, and learn some fucking statistical literacy. Oh, and probably stop cosplaying as some political revolutionary in the comment section of a Japanese manga. It's just weird and obnoxious.
