Comment by neioengb4
8 months ago
everything seems fine until it doesn’t. those jeju air and american airlines passengers thought they were coming in for a routine landing after a fun vacation or business trip. while the odds are in theory in our favor, i can’t handle the possibility of subjecting my family to the horror of that situation anymore
Odds are very strongly in your favor, not in theory, but in practice. If you can't handle "the possibility", I have some bad news about a huge amount of way more likely possibilities of what can happen to someone simply… living.
The only reason you're afraid of some things more than others is because you came across some stories, and not others. We're all wired like this evolutionarily, on purpose. When we see stories, we're supposed to alter our behavior, because all the stories used to be local and relevant. "A bear ate Timmy near the river" is a good warning to be extra careful near there. Now that we have internet, and the entire planet's worth of carefully selected bears eating Timmys is getting fed into everyone's mind, we must learn a new trick: understanding how odds and relevancy works.