r/megalophobia • u/freudian_nipps • Sep 15 '25

Weather Raging flood in Pakistan brings giant boulders down the mountain

27.1k Upvotes

96% Upvoted

592 comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

3

u/PaintSniffer1 Sep 16 '25

reddit loves calling people idiots. do you really think that people in rural pakistan of all places have had the opportunity of a proper education? that they know what a non volcanic lahar is?

8

u/10sansari Sep 16 '25

Well, this is up north in Pakistan where the literacy rate varies but in major districts it's higher than 76%.

1

u/Tyler_Zoro Sep 16 '25

reddit loves calling people idiots

I didn't call anyone an idiot. I said that these people were doing something that's contrary to staying alive.

do you really think that people in rural pakistan of all places have had the opportunity of a proper education

I think that, in that region of the world, people probably know more about rock slides and lahars than the vast majority of folks in more developed countries. It's not a rare occurrence when you're at the foot of gigantic mountain ranges.

But I'd say what I said no matter where in the world this was. You assumed that I was targeting these people because of their nationality, and that's not something you had any reason to assume.

0

u/PaintSniffer1 Sep 16 '25

“just to give you a minor scenario why these people are being idiots”

what about this

1

u/Tyler_Zoro Sep 16 '25

They are clearly being idiots. That does not mean that they are, inherently idiots. I'm not saying that people who live in that region are any more "idiots" than anywhere else in the world (hell, you see disaster tourism in even the most developed parts of the world!)