• Coreidan@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Should I be mourning instead? Do you want condolences?

    That’s like claiming that walking is super dangerous because one time some guy you knew walked off a cliff.

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      1 year ago

      You could try not being an asshole.

      People do get injured and die skiing. It is not as safe as you claim it is. And you’re being a complete asshole about it.

      And slaloming down the side of a mountain on some planks of wood is far more dangerous than walking, and you fucking know that.

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        1 year ago

        That’s like claiming that mowing your lawn is super dangerous because one time your dumb ass friend got wasted and drove his mower into the pool.

        if you’re a beginner you belong on a beginner hill. Skiing is pretty damn safe as long as you use proper judgement.

        If you smack into a tree and die because you can’t control yourself then that is a judgement issue. No different then falling on your ass because you decided to take a walk on an icy hill.

        Walking is safe. Walking on an icy hill isn’t. See the difference?

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          1 year ago

          Wow, so still a complete asshole.

          Hundreds of people die skiing worldwide each year. Skiing is vastly more dangerous than ice hockey, a sport where people with blades on their feet fight each other.

          And that’s not mentioning the hundreds of thousands of injuries.

          Skiing is not nearly as safe as you claim it is, so stop being such an asshole about it.

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            1 year ago

            I am all for saying XYZ is dangerous but at least give a compelling example. Someone using zero judgement isn’t a good example.

            Otherwise next you’ll claim that using a wheel chair is dangerous because one time your friend died because they tried to jump the Grand Canyon.

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              1 year ago

              600 deaths and 600,000 injuries a year as a result of a sport a small minority of people take part in. Skiing is not as safe as you claim.

              And you’re still a colossal asshole.

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                1 year ago

                Everyone is an asshole. Woopty dooo.

                You can pull out all the statistics you want but nothing will change the fact that your buddy is dead because they decided to do something more dangerous than the actual sport.

                It’s really easy to say skiing is dangerous. But you can’t just admit that your friend died being reckless, not because skiing is “dangerous”.

                Sounds like you’re just another asshole on lemmy. Grats.

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                  1 year ago

                  She was not being reckless, she missed a turn and ended up falling into a pit where she couldn’t stop and hit a tree.

                  Skiing is not as safe as you claim it is.

                  And no, you’re a special kind of asshole, because you flippantly discount someone’s death due to an accident, because you can’t accept your precious sport isn’t as perfectly safe as you think it is.

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                    1 year ago

                    It’s as dangerous as you want it to be. That’s the part your tiny brain cannot grasp.

                    Some people suck terribly at risk management and clearly you’re in that category.

                    She was not being reckless, she missed a turn and ended up falling into a pit where she couldn’t stop and hit a tree.

                    Sounds reckless to me. But then again you don’t understand risk management.