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Iβm hopping on a plane later tonight and have a friend scared Iβm going to die. Iβm just going to Colorado so I can come back the next day but thatβs somehow scarier than the literal dozens of times Iβve sky dived.
It reminds me of my hair stylist that gets mad at me every time I get a touch up before international travelβ¦
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People have an irrational fear of dying in an extreme accident. If you asked someone whether they would die by nuclear blast or cancer most would pick cancer even though it is actually a much worse fate, but it's not as immediately terrifying. Same reason why people advocate against nuclear power despite it being orders of magnitude safer in terms of deaths caused by it.
People are bad at weighing a tiny chance of guaranteed death vs. a medium chance of being really badly hurt
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