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longlegsq t1_j6c1i4b wrote

Reply to comment by [deleted] in At least 25 die in Peru when bus plunges off cliff, police say by Vegeta9001

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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