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Originally Posted by dpastern
All I'll say isn't it better to be cautious and alive, than inconvenienced and dead if some unexpected accident occurs?
Dave
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It's the degree of bubble wrapping I detest.
I ( and all my school mates of 4 decades past) have managed to achieve a respectable age with all appendages intact...
Yet played with fireworks on the Queen's Birthday (penny bungers and all)
- rode a push bike without a helmet,
- flew glow plug powered aeroplanes in the local park
- drove a speed boat *without a license* with water-skiers in tow, before my teen years
- made my own fireworks, rockets & hydrogen filled baloons
- used a spud/pop gun without a firearms license
- scuba-dived without a PADI card
- went surfing at beaches that these days would be "closed"
- worked outside without a fluro-jacket......yet was never hit by anything other than a nesting magpie.
Life has risks.
Yet it seems to me many have lost the ability for critical thought and let others control our activities by deeming an outcome, however remote, is a "possible" outcome....and must be legislated against!!
I frankly don't think your average Aussie these days has the slightest notion of what the price of freedom is....except maybe that poor ******* (looked like an accountant in a hawaiian shirt) who got his face buried in the footpath during APEC, by the NSW Police, well, for jay-walking.
I'll get off the soapbox now....
