| > you want a homogenous society Can you tell me what that means? > people who do great things take big risks Parents? With their lives? Can you describe such a scenario? > This is a thread for startups Is the risk involved in startups of the same impact to their children as their deaths? > then assuming the amount of risk involved Am I? Is this considered a safe pastime then? > and have a large safety margin, as has been shown by his 24yr history of doing it Now who's assuming? 24 years of not telling anyone he's going on a dive? > I personally think teaching your child to be "safe" and not take "risks" is kind of stupid You're playing semantics. mortal/life-threatening risk/safety is clearly different from other forms of usages of the same word(s). You absolutely should teach your children to avoid those kinds of risks, or at least, in the context of having dependants. |
I wasn't sure what you meant by "equal society," everyones different, the only way to get "equal" where all children have "equally" committed parents, would be quite homogenous.
The main point I think I'll reiterate, is that yes, you are assuming the amount of risk this person took. The amount of risk involved goes down the more you know about something. This person definitely knows more than you about the sport of cave diving, and can better judge the amount of risk involved. I think that's all I'm trying to say. You can do something that seems dangerous to outsiders, quite safely.
And I also think that lessons from one sport, or activity, apply to other areas of life.