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> why are the astronauts willing to risk their lives There are a lot of funerals in chapter 1 of Tom Wolfe's book, "The Right Stuff". I suggest that some choi
by SideburnsOfDoom 7mo ago
> why are the astronauts willing to risk their lives
There are a lot of funerals in chapter 1 of Tom Wolfe's book, "The Right Stuff".
I suggest that some choice of profession come with a higher life-risk tolerance than others. "Accountants willing to risk their lives for the job" would be news. Firefighters, less so. Test pilots or astronauts, not much at all.
- dataflow 7mo agoYou're completely ignoring the nature of the risk. It's one thing to accept a risk of death because it's intrinsic to a noble job. It's a whole other thing to accept a totally avoidable risk that's only introduced due to management's self-interests getting in the way.
- SideburnsOfDoom 7mo agoI agree, to the extent that those two categories are easily and clearly separable and not murky due to the nature of risk, and efforts to pass off one as the other.