GEICO, the second-largest vehicle insurance underwriter in the US, has decided it will no longer cover Tesla Cybertrucks. The company is terminating current Cybertruck policies and says the truck “doesn’t meet our underwriting guidelines.”

  • ayyy@sh.itjust.works
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    3
    arrow-down
    18
    ·
    1 month ago

    What if they’re interested in naked pictures of children?

    I use an extreme example to point out that “the market will provide” is a terrible argument for the existence of anything.

    • theherk@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      13
      ·
      1 month ago

      The gulf of difference kind of undercuts your point in this case. One is undoubtedly immoral and illegal. And it doesn’t change that part of the answer why somebody would have either is because they want that, which says nothing about it being a good thing.

      • ayyy@sh.itjust.works
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        5
        arrow-down
        9
        ·
        1 month ago

        Mining several normal human lifetimes of metals and resources (and the CO2 released into the atmosphere in order to gather those materials) just for something to sit around unproductively is obviously immoral so I don’t understand the relevancy here.

        • theherk@lemmy.world
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          3
          ·
          1 month ago

          Oh I wasn’t even disagreeing with you. I was just saying that your example may undercut your point. I use extreme examples too, but it only works well when the analogy is solid throughout. In this case I don’t think they are as comparable as you do. That’s all.