Postby HunterX » Mon Jul 01, 2013 1:05 pm
Just to provide a different point of view - I think jumping out of a perfectly functional airplane is stupidly risky, but thousands of people do that every year. When the chute fails to open and they die, no one calls them stupid for doing it - they say that person was aware of the risks, accepted them, and got unlucky. A large percentage of the populace thinks we're ALL crazy and foolhardy for doing what we do because of how "dangerous" it is. Danger, risk, and acceptable risk are all relative terms. That said, there are means of subduing someone, at least to a partial loss of consciousness, that are safer than others... IF (and that's a big IF) the person in charge knows what they're doing.