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Yeah this is incorrect because people that breed dogs almost never are killed by the dogs they breed.

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No, their kids are though

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It also helps that neither dogs nor coyotes are heavy enough to crush you by accident

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… your mom?

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My mom doesn’t crush peopleon accident. Also it’s more of a psychological crushing in her case

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You exist in the context of all In which you live and that came before you

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And I heard you’ll more likely die on your way to collect your win than actually win the lottery.

And I heard home is a very dangerous place, cos lots of people die because of it…or at it?

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That’s something that always gets me with certain safety recalls.

Like the Samsung Note 7’s second recall. Something like 1 out of 2 million phones caught fire. It just happened to do it on an airplane and got the phones banned by the FAA. Nobody was injured by the phones catching fire.

How many people died in car wrecks going to the store to swap out their phones?

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driving is an apt choice to compare because it’s fucking disgusting how many people it kills every day and no one seems to give a flying fuck about it.

society is constantly actively choosing to let people die in horrible crashes simply because it is convenient.

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Exactly. In general, our willingness to do stuff depends heavily on convenience.

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How many of those people were only going to swap their phone though? How many would have been driving anyway. How many would have been killed doing something else because they weren’t going to swap out their phone…

While an interesting thought, there’s no way to know an alternate timeline of events.

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I like to say, “Stastically you’re much more likely to die in a car accident on the way to the beach than be attacked by a shark once there.”

So people are less afraid of sharks and more afraid of each other, like it should be.

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Maybe, but if we rode on sharks to get around I’m sure the statistic would be different.

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We wouldn’t get far before the shark would asphyxiate though, I think it’s a bad replacement for cars

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“Who here plans on driving their car today? Show of hands!” … “I recommend getting to know these people, because you are far more likely to die in an car accident caused by a stranger than by someone you know. But also don’t upset them, as you are far more likely to be murdered by someone you know rather than a stranger.”

“Mr Tourguide, aren’t you supposed to talk about sharks?”

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