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[deleted] t1_j6bbkh3 wrote

We've all seen the pictures of those mountain roads. Fucking nope.

This was inevitable, unfortunately.

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longlegsq t1_j6c1i4b wrote

Its not inevitable, sketchy bus companies make drivers drive like maniacs. Greed is why this happens. When I was a kid preparing for school (20 years ago) this was on the news almost every day. Its not THAT common nowadays

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carbonated-pickle t1_j6cgjca wrote

you make it sound inevitable

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deaddonkey t1_j6d2iig wrote

What I got from their comment is it’s improved over time. Which doesn’t sound like something inevitable.

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tsukaimeLoL t1_j6d467f wrote

> What I got from their comment is it’s improved over time.

Well... if it isn't perfect, then it going to happen eventually, or some might say inevitably.

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DarQraven t1_j6d6lhy wrote

Right. In that case: having a goat as the president of the US at some point is inevitable.

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tsukaimeLoL t1_j6d71fc wrote

Not really the same thing, though. What I'm saying is, if something has a 0.00000001% chance of disaster (ie. bus off a cliff, airplane crash, car crash), that happens given enough time.

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DarQraven t1_j6d9a7w wrote

I see. So a passenger plane crashing directly into the US president (who may or may not be a goat) is inevitable.

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tsukaimeLoL t1_j6da6oh wrote

Sure, if there is any chance of that happening, you could describe that to be inevitable given enough time and repetition.

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DarQraven t1_j6dfgfs wrote

And just like that, we've made the word "inevitable" meaningless. Because every single thing that is theoretically possible is now inevitable.

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pianoguy45 t1_j6dpjtj wrote

It has meaning when you're talking about the lives of people. Calling inevitable a meaningless word is trivialising all of the people who die in accidents like this.

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human8264829264 t1_j6clszs wrote

Greed is eternal.

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iSoinic t1_j6cp14h wrote

Not if the greedy person's get kicked out regularly. It's basically easy. Just open the window and kick them out

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Hot_Hour_9888 t1_j6degoq wrote

I second this guys, I Lived in Ecuador, in the Andes region the bus drivers drive like absolute maniacs and this is not an exaggeration, I repeat not an exaggeration, it’s nothing to do with the roads they are wide and well paved for the most part, I literally thought I was going to die more than once on those buses, don’t believe me go for yourself then you’ll come back and say the same thing

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