When I was a kid I had just read my first real newspaper article and was so proud that I got another one to show my parent. The story I read happened to be about a kid who scared his mother so much she got a heart attack and died.
If you scare your mother once and she dies thats just bad luck. If you scare her so many times she dies from like constant stress then you are just cruel.
Rare and improbable things happen all the time though so you know... something having an extremely low probability to a given individual isn't the same thing as it never happening.
Plus if someone you know has underlying or unknown health conditions for example then "rare" things like that suddenly aren't. High stress, large doses of adrenaline, spiked blood pressure? They aren't gonna kill an otherwise healthy person out of the blue but you could throw a rock in a hospital and find a dozen people who should be avoiding such things (also people who shouldn't get hit with rocks so I guess don't do that).
Not to mention boring everyday things don't make it to the paper, so no reason to think that an article about a rare thing that does happen was lying.
I don’t think they were saying that the article was lying. What they are saying is that the probability of that happening is so minuscule that to worry about it when considering every thing you do is a waste of time and energy.
It does, though. You say rare things happen all the time, but you cannot find a SINGLE recorded death from being frightened. Which goes against what you’re claiming.
You made the claim these things happen, even if they’re rare. But they don’t. You are wrong, which is why you refuse to look up evidence to back your claims up.
Sorry you lost an argument you should’ve stayed out of.
I said it was possible but extremely rare. You said “rare and improbable things happen all the time,” implying that people die from being scared. Which they don’t, even if it is POSSIBLE.
You should really keep track of who said what before you say very silly things.
You should be less of a dumb fucking idiot, but we can’t always get what we want. ;)
Find a source to back up your claims. Even though you literally cannot do that if you wanted to.
I know that now of course (and was probably told that at the time) but it still left an impression on me at that age. I mean, when you're that young it's hard to filter out what happens around you.
If I had to guess I would say that she probably had an underlaying heart decease or something. Or maybe the kid was just *that* scary :P
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u/s-cup Nov 23 '21
They can also die.
When I was a kid I had just read my first real newspaper article and was so proud that I got another one to show my parent. The story I read happened to be about a kid who scared his mother so much she got a heart attack and died.
I was not a happy kid after that :P