I cant understand daredevils.

[Faith No More]

I think some people enjoy being a daredevil, because they would rather live an exciting life and die young than grow old in a boring existence.

[Zen Badger]

I think some people enjoy being a daredevil, because they would rather live an exciting life and die young than grow old in a boring existence.

This pretty much sums it up for me

[jonb]

The worst thing you can do with money is hide it under the bed, Why live is all you want to do is stay safe. I heard on a nature programme a long time ago, so I can't reference it, that virtually all gibbons have cracked their ribs at one time or another falling from trees. Natural selection will select for risk takers, because these animals are the ones that can exploit change, and change is a constant. Danger is not some thing to shun, it is a thing you can learn to control and use, even if it takes a few cracked ribs on the way.

[LastPoet]

You guys ever tried to do a 'pega' on a bull like we do in Portugal? Made 2 this summer and my ribs still ache, but man, if you don't shit yourself inface of a 500 pounder charging at you, nothing will!

[jonb]

I'm queasy about even possibly harming an animal to get my kicks, but pushing myself, I'd be up for most things.

[Whateverist]

You guys ever tried to do a 'pega' on a bull like we do in Portugal? Made 2 this summer and my ribs still ache, but man, if you don't shit yourself inface of a 500 pounder charging at you, nothing will!

I think I would feel too much at the bull's mercy, and too little in control. (Or I may just lack the cajones.)

[Brian37]

Natural selection will select for risk takers

Yea Hitler did so well didn't he when he took the risk of invading Europe and attacking Russia.

Natural selection does not fucking care who sets on their ass or who works hard. Nateral selection favors anything that gets the individual to the point of reproduction. It isn't about the physically strong or the physically weak. If being a risk taker gets you to the point of making babies, that works. If being safe gets you to the point of reproduction THAT ALSO WORKS. It is about the ability to adapt.

A "risk taker" can be fit and jump cliff rocks or challenge dangerous animals, but a bacteria or genetic defect CAN kill that same "risk taker", not to mention a fall off those same rocks. If that person has not made a kid before their death it doesn't fucking matter how fit or how many "risks" they take.

Another example. Say a fit 250lb weight lifter and a 140lb fat guy meet at a bar. The fat guy has 3 kids. The weight lifter has none. The fat guy spills a beer on the other guy by accident. The weight lifter starts to grab the guy by the neck. The fat guy pulls out a gun and shoots and kills the weight lifter, BEFORE he has ever had a kid.

Bacteria desease, accidents, crime, genetic defects, war, all those things can kill the fittist people and any "risk taker".

Evolution only works when you reproduce. Next time you go to a crowded mall look at the range of people and you will find fat people with kids and fit people with kids and others with no kids. It doesn't give one shit if you take risks or are a safty nut because both can work and both dont always work.

[Autumnlicious]

Wow, I opened the thread saying "Godwin convergence in 3-2...", saw the bottom and mumbled "one."

Sometimes being correct by accident feels weird.

[zebo-the-fat]

When this guy jumps at whatever crazy altitude he is at, he will be monitored by all kinds of sensors, the data will be used to help design escape systems for future spacecraft. (Do you fancy falling from orbit?? I bet that is one hell of a rush!)
When I was younger (back in the stone age) I did parachuting, scuba diving, winter mountaineering and other crazy shit, nothing like hanging over a 400 foot drop on one ice axe to make you realise what is important and what is trivial in life. Life is too short to spend wrapped up in cotton wool, get out and stimulate your adrenal glands!

[jonb]

I am so glad some idiot started playing about with fire-

but there will always be naysayers.