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darkknight109 posted...

If you're not already in a relationship, I suppose.

Because that stops people? >_> And luck in that case might involve finding somebody into a more open relationship or miraculously having your dalliances go undiscovered.

darkknight109 posted...

But seriously, with the exception of a serious disease (particularly later in life), nothing you listed is particularly common. Your odds of dying to guns in the US is 1 in 300, and that plummets to less than 1 in 7500 if you live in literally any other first world country. The odds of dying in a motor vehicle crash are a comparatively higher 1 in 88, but we're still not into double-digit percentage count for lifetime odds. Home burglary rates are actually higher than I had thought - apparently you have about a 74% chance of being the victim of a home burglary at least once in your life, if you live in the US - but that comes with a big asterisk in that it's highly dependent on where exactly you live.

And you can substitute it for whatever because there's countless stuff that could go wrong and kill you at any point.

darkknight109 posted...

For instance, I live on an island, with the only access being a foot-passenger ferry or a private dock. There has been exactly one attempted home burglary in the last ten years and that wasn't even successful.

Wait, what? How big of an island now?

Sahuagin posted...

darkknight109 posted...

Luck - even extremely good luck - is no substitute for skill.

super-power levels of luck would be. like a lot of these, it depends how far you take it, but you could learn almost anything extremely easily because every time you do something risky or chance-based, the outcome is positive. taken far enough it would almost be like omniscience because every guess would be right.

Or you could just guess right each time.
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