Originally Posted by
Zenotetsuken
Which is exactly what my post and the previous 3 posts I made were about. You can try all you want to argue that it isn't about chance/probability, but that is the only thing you can judge it by. YOU can try to figure out the math if you want, but I'm not going to.
The first step Math Wiz, is you need to figure is out how many people who were thinking about doing something risky, but decided not to, because it is just too dangerous. I will wait.
The original post that I responded to said "People should be cautious about roller coasters/water slides...yes millions of people ride them each year and for 99.99% of them nothing happens, however these stories pop up for every water/amusement park everywhere. On a regular basis.
Statistically speaking you're not likely to be a statistic, but someone somewhere is going to be.
Of course you're probably more likely to get into an auto accident on the way to the water park than get into an injury while on a water ride, but that's a story for another day."
To which I responded "The exact same thing could be said of ANYTHING... eating bananas, or walking across the street, or NOT walking across the street, or sitting down in a chair, or going to the bathroom, or taking a shower or etc. etc. etc. etc.
If the EXTREME unlikeliness of something bad happening keeps you from doing something, then NOT doing something is just as likely to kill you."