Accidents, aren't
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pluralI see the word accident used everywhere
from automobile accidents,
to plane accidents,
to environmental accidents,
to I accidentally fucked your sister
Now our trusty dictionary defines an accident as the following:
1.
A) An unexpected and undesirable event, especially one resulting in damage or harm: car accidents on icy roads.
B) An unforeseen incident: A series of happy accidents led to his promotion.
C) An instance of involuntary urination or defecation in one's clothing.
2. Lack of intention; chance: ran into an old friend by accident.
3. A circumstance or attribute that is not essential to the nature of something.
Each of these definitions, describes something unforeseen, or involuntary
but in most usage is really used to disguise negligence
A car "accident" is no accident
it is the result of one or possibly more drivers negligence
a failure to drive safely and consciously with respect to road conditions
When a child defecates in it's pants
it is no accident
the child either doesn't know better
or was negligent in observing the warning signs
that an avalanche of shit was impending
When an adult defecates in his/her pants
it is also no accident
it is either a perversion, a medical condition
or a serious case of stu-fucking-pidity
In almost every case, usage of "Accident" to describe unfortunate incidents
is merely an attempt to cover up ours or someone else's negligence
Where accident is used to describe chance of lack of intention, happenstance would perhaps be a better choice of word.
People seem to invoke the word accident, like it was a "Get out of Jail free" card
If I only had a dollar for every time I have heard
"It was an accident, I'm sorry, but what do you want me to do"
I would have enough money to pay Bill Gates to scrub my toilets
It wasn't an accident, and I wont excuse it
"Sorry" doesn't make it better, just fix the freaking problem
It was negligence, and as such inexcusable but usually repairable
People love the word accident
because it excuses them of responsibility
I accidentally fucked your sister, so it isn't really my fault
I accidentally ran into your car, so it isn't really my fault, even though I wasn't looking
As if the intention magically solves the freaking problem
That I had no intention of fucking your sister doesn't really make it any better that I did
That I had no intention of crashing my car into yours doesn't do much for you
but we still cling to this idea
this fallacy
When instead of excusing negligence and unintentional consequences
which are entirely foreseeable by the laws of reality
we should encouraging ourselves and our youth
to act deliberately
and with intention
to be conscious of their movements and behaviours
because accidents, aren't
from automobile accidents,
to plane accidents,
to environmental accidents,
to I accidentally fucked your sister
Now our trusty dictionary defines an accident as the following:
1.
A) An unexpected and undesirable event, especially one resulting in damage or harm: car accidents on icy roads.
B) An unforeseen incident: A series of happy accidents led to his promotion.
C) An instance of involuntary urination or defecation in one's clothing.
2. Lack of intention; chance: ran into an old friend by accident.
3. A circumstance or attribute that is not essential to the nature of something.
Each of these definitions, describes something unforeseen, or involuntary
but in most usage is really used to disguise negligence
A car "accident" is no accident
it is the result of one or possibly more drivers negligence
a failure to drive safely and consciously with respect to road conditions
When a child defecates in it's pants
it is no accident
the child either doesn't know better
or was negligent in observing the warning signs
that an avalanche of shit was impending
When an adult defecates in his/her pants
it is also no accident
it is either a perversion, a medical condition
or a serious case of stu-fucking-pidity
In almost every case, usage of "Accident" to describe unfortunate incidents
is merely an attempt to cover up ours or someone else's negligence
Where accident is used to describe chance of lack of intention, happenstance would perhaps be a better choice of word.
People seem to invoke the word accident, like it was a "Get out of Jail free" card
If I only had a dollar for every time I have heard
"It was an accident, I'm sorry, but what do you want me to do"
I would have enough money to pay Bill Gates to scrub my toilets
It wasn't an accident, and I wont excuse it
"Sorry" doesn't make it better, just fix the freaking problem
It was negligence, and as such inexcusable but usually repairable
People love the word accident
because it excuses them of responsibility
I accidentally fucked your sister, so it isn't really my fault
I accidentally ran into your car, so it isn't really my fault, even though I wasn't looking
As if the intention magically solves the freaking problem
That I had no intention of fucking your sister doesn't really make it any better that I did
That I had no intention of crashing my car into yours doesn't do much for you
but we still cling to this idea
this fallacy
When instead of excusing negligence and unintentional consequences
which are entirely foreseeable by the laws of reality
we should encouraging ourselves and our youth
to act deliberately
and with intention
to be conscious of their movements and behaviours
because accidents, aren't
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Date: 2003-11-05 03:36 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-11-05 03:39 am (UTC)you could have told me that
Before you stuck your tongue down my throat
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Date: 2003-11-05 03:41 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-11-05 03:48 am (UTC)constitute an accident?
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Date: 2003-11-05 03:52 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-11-05 03:54 am (UTC)food is kept in the main house
not the methamphetamine lab
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Date: 2003-11-05 03:58 am (UTC)I suppose one could fault the children for not having the wherewithall to know to jump out of the way, but since such an occurence is outside their experience, they would be merely ignorant.
I suggest that an accident is an occurance that comes about from the deficit between stochastic environmental factors and the person's ability to deal with changes.
Now one could say that most of the examples you've put forth occur because that person has altered their ability through free-will (that is, they chose to do the wrong thing), making them not so much accidents as they are people being dumbasses.
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Date: 2003-11-05 04:06 am (UTC)but I sort of feel that would be reducing it ad absurdum
I still would not call it an accident, instead I would call it "unfortunate"
I think your suggestion seems entirely reasonable, however I would stipulate that these instances in my opinion accounts for less than 10% of the usage of the word accident.
In most cases, I stand my thesis that people are negligent dumbasses
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Date: 2003-11-05 04:13 am (UTC)that goes without saying.
By the way, heart attacks don't always strike down fat-bastard lazyasses. They also happen to cokeheads.
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Date: 2003-11-05 04:18 am (UTC)good point
guess it really could happen to anyone
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Date: 2003-11-05 07:02 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-11-05 07:15 am (UTC)suing is for pussies
just haul off and smack the lil shit
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Date: 2003-11-05 10:11 am (UTC)If someone apologizes for something after they have done it and all it would have taken to prevent this was some thought by someone slightly less self centered than the individual providing the apology, I'm all for teaching a lesson in how to swallow your own teeth.