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Old Apr 3, 2008 | 10:48 pm
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birdstrike
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Originally Posted by mre5765
Yeah yeah, crossing the street, driving a car, visiting a hospital, yadda, yadda, yadda, are all riskier than flying in a plane with a cockpit infested with snot nosed kids. Riskier than flying without a seat belt. Riskier than letting pax sit in jump seats. Riskier than letting cripples sit in exit rows. Etc.
I think you are beginning to get it.

Originally Posted by mre5765
In my life I tend to look for the unnecessary risks and avoid them. That legal left turn out of the parking lot into a 6 lane road. Forget that ... I'll turn right and do the U-turn. Or find another exit from the lot that entails a left turn through fewer lanes. I want to live.
But you refuse to actually analyze risk but rely on emotion to evaluate it? That, my friend, is not the way to a long life.

Originally Posted by mre5765
I especially try to avoid doing unnecessary things that put others at risk at no benefit to them and only benefit to me. Taking your kid into a commercial aircraft's cockpit is unnecessary, selfish, and puts me at risk.
If you won't realistically evaluate your own behaviors, I'm sure not going to let you dictate mine.
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