Comment on Why is everyone so giddy about the flooding thay happened at burning man?
WheeGeetheCat@sh.itjust.works 9 months agoIf I add in the 85+ to the disney calculations it only makes your case worse (drives the # higher). I left it out to be nice.
Would you seriously take your family to disney as long as less than 10 people a day died there? Like get your head out of the #s for a second think with your common sense.
Lets do another really simple one. Imagine a playground near you serving kids 5-14. Are you taking your kids as long as less than 13 kids died there last year? Or are you maybe thinking its unsafe after 1 or 2 deaths? WHY?
Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
You’re the only one talking about if I would go or not, what I’m talking about since the beginning is that considering the number of people present and publically available stats, it’s clear that there’s nothing unusual about deaths happening during these events and OP calling it a tragedy is exaggerated. I’m sure they didn’t even know that deaths happen most years at Burning Man and they only realised it happened this year because attention was brought to the event because of the weather. Same for Disney, same for any place where there’s thousands of people coming and going every day.
Shit happens, there’s statistically less shit happening there than elsewhere, get over it.
cubedsteaks@lemmy.today 9 months ago
so you don’t think its a tragedy when someone dies?
Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
Tens of thousands dying of starvation? That’s a tragedy.
Kids being shot in school? That’s a tragedy.
A dude that went to an event in the middle of the desert where people die pretty much every year? Unless they got killed by someone else then fuck no that’s not a tragedy.
I’ve got bad news about global mortality and human’s inability to live forever if you think every death is a tragedy.
cubedsteaks@lemmy.today 9 months ago
Are you just using the definition of tragedy here? We can’t have any nuance about this?