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It's likely grey cause folk hate to be reminded of the human condition to think: "it won't happen to me" & the follow-up "when it does I'm surprised and mad".


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To be fair, that applies to many people across many things. "It won't happen to me" type of thinking is quite common across many ages for many scenarios.

I would think the same history shows that people continue to be surprised as such revelations. No matter how many times it has happened before. Throughout history human beings have had a serious problem based on the sad idea that "it won't happen to me".

The people that do these things have this thought in common: "won't happen to me and not in my lifetime"

"It won't happen to me."

But it could! You may feel it makes sense. And for some of us it may make sense too.

What happens when it doesn't and you do not know?


Literally the opposite of what I'm saying. I'm saying people shrug off what's happening to other people because they don't think it will happen to them, while in fact, what's happening to other people is a good preview of what's coming for you.

Generally, humans are very good at "it won't happen to me" denial. And kinda-morbidly curious about the misfortune of others. And always looking for "the one little trick". And...

I'm not a developer, but i think it's the "that won't happen to me " syndrome that humans tend to suffer, just to deny reality. We do it in our lives everyday, till it happens to us.

This happens whenever something bad happens to someone else, be it a car accident or a major illness or being the victim of a crime.

People want to think it wouldn’t happen to them, so they go through all the reasons they would have been able to avoid the situation so that they don’t have to fear it happening to them.

People really don’t want to admit to themselves that there are a lot of things outside our control that can happen to us.


It turns out that people react irrationally when rare bad things happen to them; that is, they over-react, generally...

Imagining it won't happen to you is simply the human condition, especially younger in life. I can't blame folks.

Unfortunately most people don't make that connection and assume that it "would never happen to them" and don't care if it happens to someone else.

"It shouldn't happen" is not a great answer to "what if something bad happens?".

But it is quite common!


I'm not saying it's unlikely... These things do happen, and we need to be aware of them. We need to be afraid of them, and prepare accordingly. But pretending like they don't exist and "can never happen to me" is like sticking your head in the sand.

When someone says "wow, something terrible happened to me and I'm very upset" you don't have to respond "Well what about me? My life is hard too!"

> or bad things will happen

"What if X happens?"

"Shut up, Y is bad."

Uh.


3. Humans are notoriously terrible at internalizing future risk for consideration in context of the liability of their current actions.

i.e. "I never thought it would happen to me."


Of course it is to be expected, but unfortunately one cannot expect it happen. If you get it?

I don't wish this on anyone. It's more of a coping mechanism. You "hope" it's not undeserved because the alternative is nightmarish and means it could hit everyone at random, like now.
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