What are they dying for?
Because major road construction is being conducted all summer on the highway to our work site, the company sent out information about the hazards of road construction to both workers and vehicle passengers. It occurred to me, when I read that over 1,000 people die each year in accidents in road construction areas (including about 100 road construction workers), that it is comparable to the fatalities among US servicemembers in Iraq.
For some reason the fatalities here on US roads appear to be more acceptable than those in Iraq. Is it because we consider road construction more vital than stabilizing the Middle East, and therefore worth the sacrifice? Is it more acceptable for innocent men, women and children to die through negligence or oversight, than for soldiers to die in a struggle against terrorists, who intentionally murder innocent men, women and children?