Think how exteme sports help people! I was depressed as a kid. I always sat in the corner not talking. My parents pushed me into ball sports. I never liked them and just went through the paces. Finally after 8 years my parents let me try motocross wich i wanted to do. I have passed my deprssion. I have learned how to work on engines.

just think about it when you are older how you are going to wish you can do some of these things you are missing part of youre life man. From: you’re everyday motorcycle stuntman.

If a person feels that the risk is worth it that is all that matters to make it worth it as long as they aren’t taking risks with other people. Different things bring meaning to different people’s lives. For some people it would be worth more to try something they are fascinated in no matter how risky and die young than to live to be 100 without doing it.

The article also snidely says “in reality, thrill seekers just have an inclination to be impulsive and non-conforming to social norms.” The subtle implication is pro-conformity. Social norms can be WRONG. Have we forgotten “slavery”? Segregation? A woman’s place being in the home? History is full of examples of bad social norms. We can thank courageous thrill seekers for defying them and in the process exposing those that need to be changed for what they really are.

This mindset that equates prioritizing personal physical safety above all other values with intelligence and morality is disturbing and unsound and sucks the meaning out of life. Imagine an authoritarian society where any questioning of the authorities is “unsafe” and where this way of thinking that “strict regard for personal physical safety is objectively best” has become standard. Then even if people notice something’s wrong they will condemn people for being “stupid” or “risk-takers” if they try to stand up to it.

I was blessed in that I received top medical care right away & though one leg is now shorter, I am able 2 walk on my own 2 feet. but it taught me and others about adrenaline or danger addiction. Today I teach my sponsees about balance right from day 1. I’m grateful I lived to share that lesson.

Without an inbuilt tendancy to take risk, most present in adolescent juveniles, society wouldn’t have got fed back in our caveman days!

It’s there for a reason, some people just need to know how to use it CONSTRUCTIVELY.

Where would we be today without the great risk takers of the past? And you want to see if you can ‘cure’ the world of adventurers, extreme sports participant and other general risk takers?

We need more healthy opportunities for a ‘rush’ in this molly-cuddled, airbag-fitted-as-standard day and age, not people arguing that risk taking’s evidence of a deseased mind.

Where I work, we help youths with unhealthy risk taking tendancies such as shop lifting, fighting, substance abuse etc and find skills that they can learn, feel positive about, but still get a rush out of, gain respect for, and live for. And yes, they may get injured wake-boarding, sailing, windsurfing, skate-boarding etc.

That is life, because it’s the way we’ve evolved to seek and conquer challenges, it’s just that society has become so safe that it can be hard to find somewhere positive for a risk taker to direct his attention.

You want to eat crocodile? You buy it. You certainly don’t chase it with a stick anymore…..but we used to. So What do you think happened to that part of peoples brains which enabled them to get on with the task in hand?

Back in the day the risk taker would be the hero who fed everyone, now people like you make them feel like they’re all messed up, and need corrective therapy.

I feel disgusted. Read up on risk takers, you’ll see that they are extremely valuable members of society where they are involved in non-destructive activities.

Oli.