This time.
What you're saying is that if someone doesn't get caught or killed it is ok.
If you are in charge of a rescue team do you want a guy on it that acts on his own and shows disregard for protocols? Face it, if he is willing to put his life in UNNECESSARY risk then how much concern will he have for yours or the other team members?
Ever see someone doing something blatantly unsafe only to have them tell you that they always do it that way?
So does their lack of injury to date mean that they are actually correct in what they're doing?
Would you allow your kids to do something unsafe only to have them tell you that they did it and didn't get hurt?
How many times you gonna run your car after the oil light comes on during operation just cuz you did it once and nothing bad happened?
Do you want your surgeon taking shortcuts because the last time he did it nothing bad happened?
Not suffering a bad consequence this time doesn't excuse following protocols in critical tasks.
This guy was selfish. He was more concerned about how he would feel about the girls fate if she fell than he was about her or his fellow rescuers.
Most of life is blatantly unsafe, and the entire emergency response function is blatantly unsafe.
Operating a motor vehicle on the highway is the most blatantly unsafe thing one can do. Flying a rescue helicopter is blatantly unsafe. A fireman that enters a burning building is doing something that is blatantly unsafe. A policeman that approaches an unknown suspect is doing something blatantly unsafe.
There are absolutely no amount of written rules or regulations that can make any of those activities safe.
Yet people, with mindsets like yours, will continue to promulgate more and more written rules and regulations because they foolishly believe that they can make life safe, so long as they have enough three-ring binders with rules.