i think the take that if we got rid of international ski accident day fewer people would die of horrific ski accidents is perhaps a delusion of grief. it is true that on international ski accident day, more people are thinking of skiing and thus show up on the slopes. more accidents do happen on international ski accident day. but if the day was gone, it's not like people wouldn't still ski or have accidents. they'd just happen on different days.
what is important is to use international ski accident day to deglorify dangerous ski behaviours, educate people on ski safety, and implement measures to prevent deadly accidents from happening. the solution is not to eliminate all recognition of the fact that sometimes people on the slopes die, because they do.
@Lady before this thread i did not even know international ski accident day existed, let alone that it was controversial
@Satsuma it doesn't this is actually a thread about TDoR
@Lady interesting choice of metaphor
@Satsuma well it needed to be serious enough to involve death but whimsical enough to not be traumatic and that was the first thing which came to mind
@Lady the result was it was specific enough that it seemed like the kind of thing one corner of the internet gets into *really intense* fights over but no one else even knows about
@Satsuma i mean it could be but i don’t know about it either then :P
one must also consider that perhaps the reason why so many people die on international ski accident day is because it is in a dark, cold month which is difficult for skiers