Broken Carboy

[bja]

In reality, breaking glass is in any setting where you handle glass constantly...is inevitable.

No it's not. I can only think of one thing in life that's inevitable.

No amount of care can prevent it from happening eventually. It can be blamed on human carelessness, but carelessness is an integral part of humanity.

Carelessness is from not paying attention to what you're doing and what's going on around you.

 

[jbaysurfer]

No it's not. I can only think of one thing in life that's inevitable.



Carelessness is from not paying attention to what you're doing and what's going on around you.

You tell me how to extract accidents from humanity and I'll agree they're not inevitable. But since they've been going on since the beginning of recorded history, the evidence is overwhelming.

Edit: the definition of carelessness you give is accurate. But so is the this: Humanity and carelessness are inextricable.

 

[bja]

You tell me how to extract accidents from humanity and I'll agree they're not inevitable. But since they've been going on since the beginning of recorded history, the evidence is overwhelming.

Edit: the definition of carelessness you give is accurate. But so is the this: Humanity and carelessness are inextricable.

See my signature.

 

[jbaysurfer]

See my signature.

Yeah, I think you're confusing being a control freak with being smart.

 

[bja]

Yeah, I think you're confusing being a control freak with being smart.

I'm not the one here who's confused.

 

[bzwyatt]

To be more accurate I should have said breaking my carboy was more easily avoidable than I thought before. I saw a very specific reason I broke it, and it wasn't a 'freak accident', I just wasn't paying attention to the things near me as I was cleaning. Now that I know what made it break, it won't happen again.

I know the motorcycle quote, and I ride bikes. It is kind of true. Same for driving a car (you'll hit something you didn't mean to, eventually, even if it is just a curb; not necessarily another car on the street) or walking (you'll do it wrong sometime, and scrape your knee or twist your ankle, but not necessarily fall off a cliff and die). I'm going to make a mistake brewing, yes, but I am confident it won't be a mistake that will cause me to break a glass carboy, or anything else I'm not willing to risk.

Life is risky (for happy people), if we never did anything that people die or get hurt doing on a regular basis, we would never do anything at all (and not be very happy).