Post by Radrook Admin on Aug 1, 2020 16:26:01 GMT -5
Are you sorry for injured or dead daredevils?
By daredevils, I mean people who feel that they must risk mortal danger in order to feel alive or entertained. You know, people like shydivers, surfers or skin-divers in shark-infested waters, tightrope walkers without a harness, stunt artists like Evel Knievel, magicians like Blain who court death in order to impress, safari people who must get close to wild animals or those who keep them as pets despite the risks etc.
After all, such individuals are fully aware of the dangers involved in the activities they have chosen and proceed to participate in them regardless. Some even like to push the envelope of safety to the breaking point. It's as if the more they challenge the statistical probabilities the more euphorious they become. Some even continue to participate in the sport which has disfigured, maimed or paralyzed them.
For example, the race driver who was horribly disfigured when his car crashed and caught fire. Back he was at it again after he recovered. Or the fellow who was paralyzed when his parachute did not deploy while skydiving. Even paralyzed he had a special suit fashioned which allowed him to continue to jump. Or those who insist on keeping dangerous animals, such as chimps, even though they are fully aware of the times in which chimps have gone totally berserk and maimed and killed their owners. Or those who know that sharks live and hunt in the sea near the shore and go swimming or surfing or diving in such waters anyway.
True, it does touch our heart to see other humans suffer. A beautiful young lady with a shark- amputated arm is like a work of art that has been unnecessarily defaced. Yet there she is back in the water risking having her remaining arm shark-amputated as well. Yet despite such a stupidity, she was portrayed on billboards as an example of persistence despite tragedy. Since when has carelessness about life and basic stupidity become a virtue? The same applies to the sport of boxing which involves exposing the brain to permanent injury by getting bludgeoned repeatedly to the skull. Should those people arouse our compassion when they suffer the consequences?
I personally find empathy difficult for such individuals and tend to conclude that deep down inside they must not value life to the same degree that others do. Or I tend to strongly suspect that they suffer from the invulnerability to harm delusion which is common to the young who feel that tragedies happen to others but will never happen to them.
The woman who used to swim from one small island to the next instead of taking a small boat and who was killed by a shark makes one wonder whether there is indeed a death wish. Or the skydiver who stubbornly set increasingly more difficult tasks for himself such as plummeting between narrow walls as he hurdled towards the ground until his luck runs out as everyone had warned. Perhaps all these are merely suicidal individuals who camouflage their real intentions, to die, by using the excuse of practicing a hobby which they supposedly are unable to resist?
After all, such individuals are fully aware of the dangers involved in the activities they have chosen and proceed to participate in them regardless. Some even like to push the envelope of safety to the breaking point. It's as if the more they challenge the statistical probabilities the more euphorious they become. Some even continue to participate in the sport which has disfigured, maimed or paralyzed them.
For example, the race driver who was horribly disfigured when his car crashed and caught fire. Back he was at it again after he recovered. Or the fellow who was paralyzed when his parachute did not deploy while skydiving. Even paralyzed he had a special suit fashioned which allowed him to continue to jump. Or those who insist on keeping dangerous animals, such as chimps, even though they are fully aware of the times in which chimps have gone totally berserk and maimed and killed their owners. Or those who know that sharks live and hunt in the sea near the shore and go swimming or surfing or diving in such waters anyway.
True, it does touch our heart to see other humans suffer. A beautiful young lady with a shark- amputated arm is like a work of art that has been unnecessarily defaced. Yet there she is back in the water risking having her remaining arm shark-amputated as well. Yet despite such a stupidity, she was portrayed on billboards as an example of persistence despite tragedy. Since when has carelessness about life and basic stupidity become a virtue? The same applies to the sport of boxing which involves exposing the brain to permanent injury by getting bludgeoned repeatedly to the skull. Should those people arouse our compassion when they suffer the consequences?
I personally find empathy difficult for such individuals and tend to conclude that deep down inside they must not value life to the same degree that others do. Or I tend to strongly suspect that they suffer from the invulnerability to harm delusion which is common to the young who feel that tragedies happen to others but will never happen to them.
The woman who used to swim from one small island to the next instead of taking a small boat and who was killed by a shark makes one wonder whether there is indeed a death wish. Or the skydiver who stubbornly set increasingly more difficult tasks for himself such as plummeting between narrow walls as he hurdled towards the ground until his luck runs out as everyone had warned. Perhaps all these are merely suicidal individuals who camouflage their real intentions, to die, by using the excuse of practicing a hobby which they supposedly are unable to resist?