One Sister-In-Law Versus My Dad
Claude AI: If you always have choices, then every bad outcome is somebody’s fault, and there’s no room in the philosophy for accident, constraint, or plain misfortune.
My dad regarding my brother’s death: “He was unlucky.”
Not long after my brother’s death, I considered that not seeing my brother’s death in the light of the challenge that statistics is, i.e., getting numbers lower, would be wishing that someone else had died instead of he — that someone else had taken his place.
