Think about it: Virtually every parent now straps their children into expensive, specially engineered car seats in order to prevent them from injury in the exceedingly remote chance of an accident. That’s how safety-conscious parents have become. Do we really think those same parents are going to turn around a few years later and let that same child be hit in the head repeatedly at forces of upward of 100Gs in the name of entertainment? I mean, if your son wants to play Pop Warner in a few years, can you really tell me you’d let him do it?
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This assumes a level of consistency an understanding among people that isn’t realistic. Not all equivalent outcomes create the same emotional response. That’s why people are more afraid of flying than they are of driving, even though driving is more dangerous. It’s also why I have no problem with Bourbon but won’t go anywhere near a bottle of Jagermeister. Same basic theory.