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Originally Posted by stevieray
Doesn't change the fact that people take that risk.
Every.Single.Day.
For years.
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Yeah, but is it a good idea to do that? It works out fine until that one time that it doesn't.
I think one thing we all know from life is that different people evaluate and tolerate risk differently. There are people who do things like stand on rooftop ledges that I think are crazy, and there are people who think that me living in a big city is crazy. The question becomes the point at which society decides that personal choice creates too much societal disruption. We make drunk driving illegal because some people think that's fine and most people don't.
Actually, now that I think about it, most dangerous behaviors are legislated to be illegal. A lot of them merely aren't enforced broadly.
The tailgating thing reminds me of a story from my youth. My father used to send me up from Rolla to Jefferson City occasionally to do stuff, and sometimes he'd have me ride with some random guy that he hired. There was one guy who was an absolute moron driving. This was old Highway 63 that was curvy with low visibility, and if this guy couldn't pass, he would tailgate the person ahead of him to an extreme. We're talking a foot off the person's bumper at highway speed. It terrified me, and I told my father that I was not going to ride with that guy again. A year later, he died in a car wreck. While I never heard the details, I'm 100 percent positive that it was him doing something bonehead.