No. I just don't see the need to put kids in unnecessary danger. What's the point of going out of your way to make a kid's life more dangerous?
I grew up being taught to take risks and will continue to do so.
That's fine, but there's a difference between you, a consenting adult, putting yourself in danger and a kid being put in danger by his parents. The kid doesn't know enough to make decisions for himself and his parents certainly have no right to put him in a dangerous situation.
You will probably be tickled to death when my generation is dead and gone.
I have no real opinion on your generation.
"The kid doesn't know enough to make decisions for himself"
You don't know that, I certainly did at that age and was raised to make those kind of evaluations and decisions.