Life's Unpredictable Risks
A Mother glances out the window, and see's Todd playing on the side walk with his friends. She walks out and tells Todd, remember what I told you about playing near the street, you might get hit by a car. She turns around and heads back inside, saying over her shoulder loudly, now come on inside, dinner is ready. Todd walks through the front gate, and then runs towards the steps and up to the door. Suddenly, Todd trips on his untied shoe lace and falls hitting his head on the stone steps dying instantly. The moral of the story? GPT said: Possible morals (depending on the lens): Control is an illusion. We warn against the dangers we can imagine, but life often unfolds through the ones we don’t. Attention beats prediction. The real risk wasn’t the street—it was the unlaced shoe. Present awareness matters more than feared futures. Causality is not moral. Tragedy doesn’t arrive because of moral failure, bad intentions, or ignored warnings. It arrives because chance ex...