As everyone now knows, Trayvon Martin had gone to buy a pack of Skittles and some iced tea at a 7-Eleven when he had his fatal encounter with George Zimmerman.

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What makes our human experience interesting is not the fact that we all fail from time to time and will most certainly encounter a fatal obstacle eventually.

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For instance, Malcolm Gladwell in Outliers explains how Korean Airlines used to encounter an abnormal number of fatal crashes.

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Above a speed of about 10 knots, a right whale's encounter with a large ship would probably be fatal.

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