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Originally Posted by Cynthetiq
no it's not. i don't mean YOU as in willravel, I mean, you to everyone as an individual.
everything happens to someone else. that's what the statistics are, until you become one.
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The odds of being hit by lightning are 576000 to 1. If I am hit by lightning, the odds of being hit by lightning are still 576000 to 1. Nothing changes. It's not about it happening to "someone else", it's about a reasonable response to probability of danger.
Have you ever swam in the ocean? Then you were needlessly risking your life because there's a 1 in 300,000,000 chance of being attacked by a shark. How could you needlessly endanger yourself like that? Simple: it's so unlikely to happen that planning for it makes no sense.
Wear a seatbelt because auto accidents aren't rare. Eat low fat foods and exercise because heart disease isn't rare. Don't pretend like statistically improbable dangers are a big deal. You're just wasting your time.