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What is something that people think is dangerous but in reality is completely harmless? (lemmy.fmhy.ml)
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[โ€“] 47 points 3 years ago (7 children)

Sharks.

More people die due to things like selfies, falling out of your bed, tipped vending machines and heck, even balloons, then to a shark.

Just because something can kill you doesnt mean it will, more often than not, it actually wont.

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  • [โ€“] 21 points 3 years ago* (1 child)

    Here there might be a confusion between danger, and statistics.

    all those examples are about events or things that are far more frequent than be near a shark

    if the average person could be close to a shark as many time in life than leaving a bed, be close to something that can flip, or to people taking selfies, statistics might be very different

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  • [โ€“] 2 points 3 years ago

    Most of the fear of sharks is due to media. Like the vast majority of sharks will not attack a human even when in close proximity. There are like 1 or 2 species of sharks that have any danger to humans: bull and tiger sharks if I remember correctly. And even those 2 will most likely not attack, it's just that other species are no danger at all.

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  • [โ€“] 15 points 3 years ago

    A shark killed my brother a few years back. He was just standing there minding his own business and this shark came out of nowhere and toppled a vending machine on top of him. Poor bastard never knew what hit him.

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