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Originally Posted by BeerGeek40
No, it's not a pity that he died. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes. This may serve as a warning for the next moron who wants to fly free at 30,000 feet.
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Think about it. Ahmad from your poverty-stricken village tells friends and family he is leaving for America by stowing away on a plane. He makes his way to an airport and last he is seen getting into the wheel well of a plane. He is never heard from again.
Now, the ocean is about 3x more likely to be his final resting place than is land, so the most likely outcome is that Ahmad's frozen body falls from the plane over the ocean. If that happens, no one in western countries even knows about the incident. So they never write a news story chronicling his fate. But even if he falls from the sky over land, his village gets all the major news stories, but not some 2 paragraph story in the U.S. or Canada or Greenland. And that's if he falls in a place where humans will find him before he is eaten by scavenging animals.
Given these outcomes and conditions, the best his village and family knows is he is just another selfish person who left and never looked back. How, therefore, does his experience serve as any kind of warning to anyone in his village?
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