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CAN wiring question

So after reading up on the CAN bus outside of the preview of FIRST I realized the wiring of a normal CAN bus is not series it is parallel like I2C for instance. Why do we do it in series? It would seem like parallel would provide more reliability.
I hope this isn't an obvious question and I'm just missing something but it seems off.

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