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Well skydiving is a lot closer to playing the Russian roulette "for enjoyment" and face an immediate and gruesome death than drinking a couple glasses of wine a

Well skydiving is a lot closer to playing the Russian roulette "for enjoyment" and face an immediate and gruesome death than drinking a couple glasses of wine and possibly get cirrhosis in 50 years.

defrost 2y ago
The chance of a drunk driver killing a third party is considerably higher than that of a skydiver landing on someone. That aside: With modern equipment and training methods, fatalities occur in less than 1 per 100,000 cases and serious injuries requiring hospitalization in less than 2 per 10,000 cases. This puts the assessment of skydiving as a high-risk sport into perspective, especially considering the definition of high-risk sport as a sporting activity in which athletes must accept the possibility of serious injury or death as an immediate part of the sporting activity, especially when comparing these results with other so-called high-risk sports. For example, amateur boxers suffer an injury on average every 2.5 h in competition and every 772 h in training, or one in three recreational surfers suffers a traumatic injury within 12 months Recreational Skydiving—Really That Dangerous? A Systematic Review https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9859333/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9859333/
dahart 2y ago
That’s totally true, though people routinely make bad decisions that get them killed while on a couple glasses of wine. In 2023, in the U.S., where I live, more than 100,000 people died of alcohol related causes, while a mere 10 people died from skydiving, out of almost 3.5 million skydives. Romania (where you live?) seems to have pretty high per-capita binge drinking. Maybe drinking actually is closer to Russian Roulette and skydiving is further than it seems at first… Parent comment is also totally true: there are lots and lots of enjoyable and risky activities. Driving your car is very dangerous and results in immediate and gruesome death for hundreds of thousands of people every year. People do rock climbing, river rafting, heroine, fentanyl, motorcycle racing, boxing, scuba diving, football… Maybe you also take unnecessary and potentially terminal risks, and don’t even get the adrenaline benefit.

Well skydiving is a lot closer to playing the Russian roulette "for enjoyment" and face an immediate and gruesome death than drinking a couple glasses of wine and possibly get cirrhosis in 50 years.

defrost 2y ago

The chance of a drunk driver killing a third party is considerably higher than that of a skydiver landing on someone. That aside: With modern equipment and training methods, fatalities occur in less than 1 per 100,000 cases and serious injuries requiring hospitalization in less than 2 per 10,000 cases. This puts the assessment of skydiving as a high-risk sport into perspective, especially considering the definition of high-risk sport as a sporting activity in which athletes must accept the possibility of serious injury or death as an immediate part of the sporting activity, especially when comparing these results with other so-called high-risk sports. For example, amateur boxers suffer an injury on average every 2.5 h in competition and every 772 h in training, or one in three recreational surfers suffers a traumatic injury within 12 months Recreational Skydiving—Really That Dangerous? A Systematic Review https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9859333/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9859333/

dahart 2y ago

That’s totally true, though people routinely make bad decisions that get them killed while on a couple glasses of wine. In 2023, in the U.S., where I live, more than 100,000 people died of alcohol related causes, while a mere 10 people died from skydiving, out of almost 3.5 million skydives. Romania (where you live?) seems to have pretty high per-capita binge drinking. Maybe drinking actually is closer to Russian Roulette and skydiving is further than it seems at first… Parent comment is also totally true: there are lots and lots of enjoyable and risky activities. Driving your car is very dangerous and results in immediate and gruesome death for hundreds of thousands of people every year. People do rock climbing, river rafting, heroine, fentanyl, motorcycle racing, boxing, scuba diving, football… Maybe you also take unnecessary and potentially terminal risks, and don’t even get the adrenaline benefit.