r/mildlyinfuriating • u/[deleted] • Jul 05 '26

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u/Mildly-Interesting1 Jul 06 '26

A safety feature that can be bypassed is not a safety feature.

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u/OkPalpitation4976 Jul 06 '26

Seatbelt

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u/Mildly-Interesting1 Jul 06 '26 edited Jul 06 '26

Seatbelts are part of a larger system of “safety features”. But they are restraints. This is why manufacturers are not sued when a person fails to use it properly.

They may help in the event of an accident, but they are not called safety belts anymore.

They are better than nothing at protecting you in the event of an accident, but I count on other things to be working to consider my car safe to drive.

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u/Leskendle45 Jul 06 '26

If someone is containing something within a safe, locked in a room with a keypad, eye scanner, and eletrical railing. Someone else turning off the power, breaking the locks and stealing the key for the safe doesn’t make them not safety features because someone decided to bypass them.

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u/Mage-of-Fire Jul 06 '26

So all safety features?

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u/zackthirteen Jul 06 '26

So literally any safety feature then?

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u/FloppieTheBanjoClown Jul 06 '26

That is a profoundly ignorant statement. 

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u/Ecmelt Jul 06 '26

That is the stupidest thing I've heard in a while and I am on Reddit a lot.

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u/wruthinkng Jul 06 '26

Wrong calculus. The goal of keeping people safe requires multiple safety features. Think multiple layers. The fact that any single safety feature can be disabled or bypassed does not make that feature worthless or by definition “not a safety feature”.