Event systems do not require deduplication and/or strong ordering on the ingress. You can also solve the problem on the consumption side and there are often reasons to do this.

Plus you should be more forgiving of examples. Let us strengthen the example by saying that the inventory system lied and told us there were 2 items when there was only one. So you issue 2 commands, but when the events arrive at the fully automated warehouse, one randomly receives a null pointer exception and auto-heals into a refund, but which one?