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June 14, 2008, 4:28 pm
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How do you feel about recreational activities that are in and of themselves a risk? Things like bungi jumping that could result in physical harm, or even death?

I guess it could be argued that there is an element of risk in almost every recreatioal activity - and some more than others. For those folks who love to push the envelop, that's there thing - I'll take only those risks I think I can manage.

If we can be forced to stop smoking and eating the foods we enjoy, then risky recreational activities should be banned as well.

There's a thought Diana! I guess that this does run along those lines.

I do understand the pleasure of such extreme sports. The buzz is second to none, but there comes a time when you have a family and responsibilities and just decide (I think) that you cannot risk leaving this world splattered all over a rock underneath a big crane.

If you crunch the numbers it is no more dangerous to bungi jump than it is to ride in a car during rush hour. I think personally I would not do it but knowing what other day to day risks are I wouldn't think they are adrenaline junkies or crazy for doing it.

I will never understand people who risk their lives or the use of their limbs in doing dangerous sports. All I can think of is poor Christopher Reeve.

I also can't understand mountain climbers or people who white water raft.

But I do understand that the world is filled with many different types of people and that all of us are needed to keep the world going strong. We need the quiet, studious types who refuse to do anything more dangerous than a mathematical equation and we need the danger chasers to do the dangerous, risky tasks.

I do think that if you want to climb a mountain and later have to be rescued by the police and the National Guard, then you should be billed for the price of the rescue.

If you want to play then you've got to pay.

Christopher Reeve suffered a freak accident. Hundreds of people fall off horses a year and manage to walk away with, at most, broken bones.

But with the pay to play approach, why can't that be expanded to cover more of the risky choices people take with their diets and pleasures?

Is anyone else tired of being protected from themselves in their own homes, while people jump out of perfectly good airplanes?

I think in life you take risks everyday this includes recreation activities as well. I just try not to worry about it.