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DarQraven t1_j6d9a7w wrote

Reply to comment by tsukaimeLoL in At least 25 die in Peru when bus plunges off cliff, police say by Vegeta9001

I see. So a passenger plane crashing directly into the US president (who may or may not be a goat) is inevitable.

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tsukaimeLoL t1_j6da6oh wrote

Sure, if there is any chance of that happening, you could describe that to be inevitable given enough time and repetition.

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DarQraven t1_j6dfgfs wrote

And just like that, we've made the word "inevitable" meaningless. Because every single thing that is theoretically possible is now inevitable.

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pianoguy45 t1_j6dpjtj wrote

It has meaning when you're talking about the lives of people. Calling inevitable a meaningless word is trivialising all of the people who die in accidents like this.

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