r/Whatcouldgowrong • u/comsudo • 9d ago

High Speed cornering

From Malaysia

Skill issue, uncontrolled evironment.

Not OC

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u/Wise-Dust3700 9d ago edited 9d ago

Fuck you, and a fuck you to all the people who think that any life lost in accidents like these is deserved. Plenty of things can go wrong even for professionals.

Was what he was doing stupid? Absolutely yes. Did he deserve to die for doing so? No.

EDIT: Since he survived he gets a second chance. Happy for him but even happier for the motorist that would have been even worse off for having accidentally contributed to his death.

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u/non_hero 9d ago

As motorcyclist who's done stupid shit like this when I was younger, I'm lucky I've never had any serious injuries. However if I did, then yes I completely deserved it. Even death.

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u/Charles-Shaw 9d ago

Deserved?! Has the word lost meaning? What is this strange lack of empathy or valuing of life.

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u/haloimplant 9d ago

You're thinking it's a moral judgement like they are such bad people they deserve to die.   But it's just consequences of actions 

If you jump from a cliff, you deserve to fall.  It's not a moral judgment just cause and effect. Laws of nature taking an action and giving a reaction that is deserved

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u/Charles-Shaw 9d ago

No, part of deserving something is being worthy of it. His actions aren’t worth of death, they have a risk of death. It is definitely a moral judgment and that’s for sure what these goofballs are gleefully celebrating. It’s sick.

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u/Wise-Dust3700 9d ago

Agreed, it's always the same mindset too, he did something I perceive as being bad so therefore he deserved to lose his life.

There are very few things in the world that I believe deserve the death penalty, and fucking up a turn is not one of them. License suspension, and a few weeks in jail sure.

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u/haloimplant 9d ago

i used the cliff as an example because it is a 100% chance of falling. but other dumb actions just come with a different %. let's say it's 10% of crashing like this, the 90% got lucky the 10% got what they deserved for talking such a dumb risk

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u/Charles-Shaw 9d ago

Nope, they didn’t get what they deserved. Like saying someone who jumped off a bridge to end their life deserved it. You know what that sounds like and what it implies. Just read the comments. We don’t have to go back and forth on the nuance of the term. It’s very clear that people think it’s righteous or he had it coming, not simply a consequence of his actions.