I honestly don’t relate to your opinion.
What you see as dangerous I see as fun and plenty of people do the same things, for the fun of it and nothing happens.
Like jumping out of a plane. What is the big deal? Each year more than 3.1 million jumps are made with only 21 deaths. That is what? .001%? Chance of dying?
Skip that. I’m jumping.
Same with snowboarding. 41 people die each year snowboarding. I’ve done some pretty good falls over the year and cracked some ribs and a concussion or two. I wear a helmet now and motocross gear if I’m going off trail through the trees. About an equal number of other skiers/snowboarders receive lifetime debilitating injuries.
That’s out of 52 million skier/snowboarding days each year.
I’m still snowboarding.
Riding a bike actually has more deaths per year than both those sports combined. Yep, that’s 900 deaths per year from riding a bike.
Worse odd? 4,500 people die each year from boating accidents.
Worser odd? More than 40,000 people die each year doing a mundane daily activity - - - Driving an automobile.
Heck, saw a car flip the other on the highway. Hope the people were okay.
More than 120 people die each year from airplane accidents.
Scuba diving deaths each year? I can’t look up everything but there is literally nothing I won’t do.
I had an operation 15 years ago. Simple, Laproscopic Appendectomy. Surgeon cut one of my veins. I woke early in the recovery and got into an argument with the nurses.
I swore something was wrong. They weren’t listening and I started to get up to go get my friend, who was waiting outside. I just knew she would help me and talk to them.
They calmed me down, took my blood pressure which ended being 80/140. I forcefully told them “The numbers are backward!”
So the told me I was correct and that I was bleeding inside.
I awoke two days later and had lost more than 1/2 my blood.
I now have a scar from my breast bone to my pelvis and it took more than three years for the pain to abate and I could go back to my usual activities.
As far as I’m concerned God told that me that if the surgeon couldn’t kill me, I could do most anything and that God would look after me until it was time for me to come and into his arms.
Almost 200,000 people die each year from medical procedures.
If it’s fun, I’m doing it.
Life’s a beach. Enjoy the sun.
Well , all those stats are fine and dandy, but race car driving is a quite hazardous occupation and I would love my family enough to choose a job where my life is not at risk daily. You are sort of mixing apples and oranges it your post.