It's Monday, October 31st, 2022 from Peach Fish Productions.

It's the gist I'm Mike Pasca.

I used to think that if the very least what a functional society could do was best protect

its people from calamity.

Now I'm beginning to think maybe it's the most we can aspire to.

In the last two days, there was what's called a stampede, though probably it's better described

as a human crush where 153 people died in Seoul, South Korea.

There was the incident where 132 people at least died on a bridge in India.

I'm not even mentioning the car bombings in Somalia, which killed at least 100.

But perhaps why I'm so shaken by what happened in Seoul is because I've lived in Seoul.

I've been to Itaewon because it is an unconscionably high number.

The South Korea is an advanced nation with infrastructure, resources, and a higher per

capita income than New Zealand or Japan.

It's also a place with a history of horrific disasters.

In 2014, a ferry sank killing over 300.

The year before I lived in South Korea, the apartment store collapsed killing over 500.

It's not that huge disasters are specific to South Korea, even among very developed nations.

There is more corruption and worse oversight than in many other advanced nations of the world.

That is generally speaking true.

So this means when 125 people died in Indonesia during a stampede at a soccer match a few months

ago, or the horrifically regular occurrences of hundreds sometimes into the thousands dying

in Saudi Arabia during stampede for people making hodge.

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