Human beings often tend to focus on "identified" lives rather than "statistical lives". Which of the following sentences is *NOT* an example of this phenomenon?
A) We often rate the probability of a subset of an event as being greater than the probability of the event itself.
B) A single death is a tragedy while numerous deaths become a statistic.
C) We spend billions of dollars thwarting low probability threats like terrorism, while devoting less resources to combating scourges like drunk driving or easily preventable diseases like malaria or cholera.
D) We become engrossed with the fate of the young soccer players trapped in a Thai cave, yet do not pay the same level of attention to hundreds of deaths from a tsunami in Indonesia.
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