• Tavarin@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    Way to gloss over someone’s death you unempathetic prig.

    And new skiers may not know how to control their speed, and thus accidents happen.

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      1 year ago

      They didn’t comment on the death or have anything to do with it? I didn’t respond because I was scared of exactly this type of reaction.

      I do agree they’re being rude, and quite dumb on purpose in later replies but still.

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        1 year ago

        They didn’t comment on the death

        Exactly, as I said they glossed over the fact I personally know someone who has died skiing, and go on to argue skiing is perfectly safe, despite evidence to the contrary.

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          There is some truth to what they said, skiing can be perfectly save if you pretty much do exactly what they said. They’re definitely ignoring other factors and reasons why you’d want to go fast.

          I’m not sure why someone shouldn’t “gloss over” the other part, it doesn’t contribute to the discussion here.

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            1 year ago

            Even if you don’t go fast, you’ll never be perfectly safe because of the reckless or inexperienced people who do go fast that can hit you.

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            1 year ago

            How does knowing someone who died from skiing not contribute to the discussion of ski safety? It has everything to do with it, and no, you should not gloss it over unless you’re a heartless cunt.

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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

            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

                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

                    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.