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carbonated-pickle t1_j6cgjca wrote

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

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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