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The 6 extra deaths a year are insignificant to the government as long as
the
tax increases by a few million.

A very interesting point. Authorities decide on spending money, raised
by taxation, on the basis of the number of lives saved in the NHS, the
railways and the roads. If, by raising x million by allowing y more
deaths, then spending that x million to save z lives, would a
government be morally justified in taking the actions that allow the y
more deaths so long a z were greater than y? Hmm.

They already do that by taking money from road schemes to make rail safer.
This saves about 4 deaths a year but would save about 500+ if spent on the
roads.

Off topic for
uk.d-i-y.

Most of the stuff is OT AFAICS.