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The problem is the university never considers the other side. What is the cost of banning unsupervised swimming? Has Phelps really never swam/trained unsuperv
by aeternum 2y ago
The problem is the university never considers the other side. What is the cost of banning unsupervised swimming? Has Phelps really never swam/trained unsupervised?
The issue is the visibility is very one-sided. Everyone reads about the rare case where a kid drowns while unsupervised swimming. No one reads about the hundreds of thousands of kids that do it with no issues.
Let people take risk if they understand it and accept the risk. The university should not be held liable but the kid should not be prevented. Risk is often the price of freedom.
- Apocryphon 2y agoMichael Phelps swam in pools and not in lakes. The university is likely banning unsupervised swimming only in the latter. > Everyone reads about the rare case where a kid drowns while unsupervised swimming. It doesn't seem to be all that infrequent when it's happening on an annual basis. Anyway, ultimately the danger isn't even necessarily a swimming issue, so much as college men getting drunk and going near bodies of water (to swim or otherwise).