Your analogy is nonsense.
Even here on earth the environment dictates how we explore unexplored areas. It is the information that advances our understanding of the world and the universe. Our technology and its tools are the products of our minds and extensions of our bodies. When we use them WE are doing the exploring.
A couple of risk-taking individuals do not give to any of us any experiences we ourselves, as individuals, have not done. I did not land on the moon and have no experience of it, vicariously or otherwise.
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If I were to use your “wedding night” analogy it would have you believing that your friends can personally experience a wedding night, through you. LOL
The analogy was spot on. You just disagree with it.
Which is fine. But you miss so much of the bigger picture, the effect on human psychology, the drive to explore and learn, that is done UP front and IN person.
I can watch medical videos all day long on YouTube... But would you want me doing surgery on you if I hadn’t actually “been there and done that”?
Having information is all well and good, but personal experience cannot be underestimated.
As for Marriage night, look at the damage that “virtual” experiences are doing to real relationships... I rest my case.