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At 02:30 AM 21/09/2001 , Rodriguez wrote:
>At 08:07 AM 9/20/2001 -0400, Chris Elmore wrote:
>
> >> > I can assure you that any diving death hurts Trey, me and all of us.
> >>
> >> You can speak for yourself and no more.  Trey's a big boy and can speak
> >for
> >> himself, as he has.  Having spoken, he can live with the results.
> >
> >Lee, I could be mistaken, I'll have to go back and ask my insurance agent
> >why they won't issue me a life policy because of the dives I do.
>
>This is not due to the actions of divers who exercise their right
>to dive any way they want to, be it safe or not.  It's due to the
>state of liability litigation in our country.  The way to fix it is
>not to restrict the people's right to do stupid things, but rather
>to restrict the litigants from winning stupid cases.
>
>We're all adults making informed decisions about the risks we take;
>We have that right, and this is a good thing.  I chose not to dive a
>rebreather because I judge the risk-benefit ratio too high *for me*.
>However, as an American, I stand by the right of others to make
>different, sometimes stupid, decisions.  If it costs me a bit more
>in insurance premiums, I consider it part of the price we all pay to
>be free while I fight the real cause of the extra expense: liability
>laws.

Mike, I guess it's different all round the world, but here, whenever a 
proposal is made to regulate our activities, pressure groups use the 
evidence of deaths like these to argue for more controls and less freedom 
for the rest of us.

Those who defend, in the name of 'freedom of choice', the rights of 
people to dive in an unecessarily high-risk way are working against the
interests of all of us.

rgds billyw



>-Mike Rodriguez
><mikey@mi*.ne*>
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