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165. The Perfect Crime

Freakonomics Radio

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Is It Just Because We're Used to It?

"Even one pedestrian death is one too many," says CNN's John Sutter. "I just don't quite get that, why that cost is accepted so easily?" he asks. If we had 4,000 people die every year in airplane crashes, certainly there would be something done,. yet if a pedestrian dies from being struck by a motor vehicle, it may not even make the front page of the local newspaper.

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