If my actions precipitate an accident, do I cause the accident or prevent it?

The answer is “Cause”.

Precipitate is defined as “cause to happen suddenly”

So in this case, if your actions precipitated the accident, then your actions caused the accident to happen.

For example, if your actions were to swerve your car out of the way of a mattress on the road, but you accidentally slammed into a parked car, then your actions to swerve away from the mattress on the road precipitated or caused the accident.

Some cultural backgrounds have different superstitions or customs, this can play a part in how they decide things. superstitions are important to a culture for example, an asian culture has a superstition about women putting their purses on the ground their money will be gone, therefore people in that culture try everything they can to not let their purse touch the ground in fear of it being true. also like how we avoid walking under ladders in fear of bad luck. customs may also play a key role a custom also know as a tradition, is something people in the culture have been doing for generations as a quick example, if a family has a necklace that the family's mother passes it on to her daughter in so on it's a custom in that family.

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