You could make it fit your worldview by: - defining anyone who likes adventure as "not sane" in your book - including "risk of regret over having had an unadv

You could make it fit your worldview by: - defining anyone who likes adventure as "not sane" in your book - including "risk of regret over having had an unadventurous life" into your risk calculation - just run an analogy with casinos, where the gamblers are purchasing 'fun' Or you could explore the idea that rational choice theory isn't a set of fundamental axioms of human behavior but a (mostly successful) attempt at a descriptive theory.