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It only takes one time to die. I’m assuming you’ve never met anyone that died due to a bike. So insensitive.

• Dylan16807 6y ago
  It's okay to take a risk occasionally. It's a bad idea to climb a mountain or go sky diving every day, but doing it once doesn't make you a reckless person.
  • daniel957 6y ago
    Doing it once and not being properly prepared does make you a reckless person. To use an exaggerated example like you did, would you go skydiving without taking a class ahead of time? Would you go without a parachute? Would you go without a backup? Stop being facetious just to prove your point, please.
    • Dylan16807 6y ago
      Going skydiving, with a class, with a parachute, with a backup, is still dangerous. Climbing a mountain with good equipment and a buddy is still dangerous. Being "properly prepared" is only relevant inside a context. You can't look at just preparation when deciding if something is too dangerous. The actual risk numbers are the important thing here. If I'm driving 100 miles, and I do something sloppy that doubles my risk of dying in a car crash, the actual danger I face is less than the danger of skydiving just once with perfect prep. If it's also a special occasion where I'm going to get a huge amount of enjoyment out of it... the risk seems okay. Even if we're focused just on car safety, we should be far more upset when someone buys a car without top-tier safety ratings than about some one-off trip like this. Being able to point at some specific danger, like a battery on the floor, is just bikeshedding. What matters is the risk per day/month/year, and most of that risk is invisible.
      • daniel957 6y ago
        I’m not going to read your comment since you’re clearly being facetious.
        • Dylan16807 6y ago
          1. I'm not. 2. Do you really think that's an appropriate comment?