[marysol5]

>Wanna jump out of an airplane with no parachute and see if one of your buddies can strap one on you before you hit the ground? Totally fine with me.

>Wanna base-jump off a skyscraper in NYC with a wing-suit ? Fuck off. You’ll probably hurt someone else who didn’t sign up for that.

Are they not the same?

Also the aeroplane itself is a highly regulated piece of this system

[nerdsniper]

Not the same. One is generally over very sparsely populated land. The other is in between manhattan skyscrapers.

Also the first example (jumping out of plane with no parachute at all) is perfectly legal.

[c22]

So who decides the threshold of public risk that is appropriate?