[watwut]

World doe not have that many dangerous positions, unless you go out of your way to create unnecessary amount of dangerous positions out of sage ones. One way to do it is large permanent war, other is not to care about safety of workers.

Either way, it does not suggest anything good about those making decisions.

And of course, many historical groups were willing to die and sacrifice themselves while being were bad news as leaders (ss, communists, isis, French revolution actors, ...). Hitler himself voluntered for WWI, Stalin fought as young soldier and ISIS is build on former combatants.