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Why is everyone so giddy about the flooding thay happened at burning man? (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/nostupidquestions@lemmy.world
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Social media seems to be laughing its ass off about this tragedy, is it because the folks at burning man are perceived as frivolous hippies or something? Everyone I’ve ever met who was a regular burning man attendee has been a solid human being with strong morals, personally and financially responsible, a career. Upstanding members of society for sure. I guess all some people know is the sensationalized drugs and sex. A person died. This is a tragedy for an event that brings positivity into the world. Kind of annoyed.

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[–] -1 points 2 years ago (1 child)

fucking hell mate, do you think selection bias is a fictional concept inapplicable to your calculations or are you going to continue to pretend that taking an entire countries population and comparing it to any sliver of the country 1:1 doesn't fail basic representativeness analysis?

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  • [–] -1 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Do you think not all kinds of people go to Disney? Why do you think I gave the numbers for people under 44 except to eliminate most people who die from diseases?

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child)

    If I add in the 85+ to the disney calculations it only makes your case worse (drives the # higher). I left it out to be nice.

    Would you seriously take your family to disney as long as less than 10 people a day died there? Like get your head out of the #s for a second think with your common sense.

    Lets do another really simple one. Imagine a playground near you serving kids 5-14. Are you taking your kids as long as less than 13 kids died there last year? Or are you maybe thinking its unsafe after 1 death? WHY?

    You seriously are not understanding the importance of comparing representative groups and this 'compare any slice of the country to the entire country 1:1' method is ludicrous, nothing to do with burning man

    edit: hmm the park example is complicated by the fact we don't know how many citizens the park servers. Im finding numbers ranging all over, from 2k to 10k to much higher in cities. For this example we can use a city park with 10k annual visitors, so we would expect 1-2 deaths a year at this park and not bat an eye yes? Either way I think you get my point. Good luck

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  • [–] -2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    You're the only one talking about if I would go or not, what I'm talking about since the beginning is that considering the number of people present and publically available stats, it's clear that there's nothing unusual about deaths happening during these events and OP calling it a tragedy is exaggerated. I'm sure they didn't even know that deaths happen most years at Burning Man and they only realised it happened this year because attention was brought to the event because of the weather. Same for Disney, same for any place where there's thousands of people coming and going every day.

    Shit happens, there's statistically less shit happening there than elsewhere, get over it.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    so you don't think its a tragedy when someone dies?

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  • [–] 0 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Tens of thousands dying of starvation? That's a tragedy.

    Kids being shot in school? That's a tragedy.

    A dude that went to an event in the middle of the desert where people die pretty much every year? Unless they got killed by someone else then fuck no that's not a tragedy.

    I've got bad news about global mortality and human's inability to live forever if you think every death is a tragedy.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    Are you just using the definition of tragedy here? We can't have any nuance about this?

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  • [–] 0 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I can call out someone for acting like the death of one guy who decided to go party in the desert is anything but a sob story to generate clicks.

    There:

    https://worldpopulationreview.com/countries/deaths-per-day

    This year they only had one death at Burning Man? Well there's close to 2 death a second on a global scale. Tell me again how tragic that death was and how tragic them being stuck in mud was. Heck, I've seen reports of up to five deaths in a single year at BM, did you care about it? Nah you didn't.

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  • [–] 0 points 2 years ago

    look, I saw a post on another site where someone was making fun of these people and making fun of the person who died. That's just edgelord shit in my book.

    If you want to get all technical about a word, whatever, I'm not here for that kind argument. What is tragic to some isn't to others obviously. Empathy sure is going out the window and people will do anything to justify being a piece of shit apparently.

    And don't sit here and tell me what I don't care about. You don't fucking know.

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