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<polarbea@sa*.ne*> writes: > ... > If and when he kills himself, that same responsibility requires his > peers to acknowlege that he died because he did a STUPID thing, not > because he was unlucky. ... Well, there are two sides to the coin. Six guys play Russian Roulette and one blows his brains out. If someone asks why that one particular guy is dead while his buddies who took the same risks are still alive and kicking, or why the deceased died this time rather than any of the previous times he played the game, LUCK has a lot to do with it. On the other hand, all six guys are STUPID for playing roulette in the first place. No matter what you do, there's one chance in N that the dice will come up snake eyes. You can't complain when they do, but you can take precautions to increase the value of N. Doing it right and narrowing the odds to one in a million sure beats the odds of maybe one in a hundred or one in ten doing hairy-assed deep air diving. Or as a wise man once said, "The more careful I am, the luckier I get." (And then of course there's the fellow in Cleveland who wanted to try Russian Roulette and wasn't clear on the concept, so he used a semiauto instead of a revolver. Bang.) -- Anthony DeBoer <adb@on*.ca*> -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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