Not like, a poisonous ant or anything, I mean how many times has a singular ant domino effected itself into killing a human. Like knocking a napkin off the table that someone then slips on.

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    As others have already said, it’s probably very low or even zero. However, if we allow a chain of events to count, then that number should go up. In that case, you could say that an ant was among the many factors that contributed to the death of a human.

    Let’s say you’re tired, driving in the middle of the night, it’s raining sleet, your car has worn-out summer tyres, etc. It’s a recipe for a disaster already, but then you realise an ant has sneaked onboard and is now walking up your leg. You swipe it away, get distracted, and hit oncoming traffic. A truck carrying huge steel beams plows through your 1986 Nissan Micra like it’s made of thin cardboard. Did an ant kill you? Kinda, but not really.

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      This was my second thought. Some very complicated “sliding doors movie” Rube Goldberg situation…

      But your story is like super specific. Are you really a murderous ant?

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      Ants could have made a nest under the road causing a small pothole to form which cars tire could hit and cause it to spin out of control on wet road.

      Singular ant? Not really

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        But what if 1 particular ant didn’t contribute to the nest enough stopping the pothole from occuring. If it works that way it should work the other way too.

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          Then the supervisor ant and inspector ant didn’t do their job properly or the ant society failed every ant because there wasn’t systems in place to prevent that from happening.

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      I think spiders in cars cause quite a few accidents due to distracted drivers. There must be some people who freak out over ants the same way.

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        I know I freak out no matter what kind of creepy crawler I find on my leg. Usually I just slap first and look at it later.