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Are risky sports immoral?

Some people engage in highly risky sports, such as freestyle skiing or snowboarding, mountain climbing in extreme conditions, surfing huge waves, skydiving, free (non-scuba) diving, super-technical mountain biking, and so on. Since life is the standard of value, is it wrong to risk your life (or limbs) in such pursuits? Should a person take pleasure in risks for its own sake?

Anonymous , 24.04.2011, 18:17
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Kelly Elmore, 26.04.2011, 09:08
I would never do it because I am big chicken, but I wanted to point out that skydiving isn't actually very risky. It's base diving that fits into the category of very risky sports with the other things listed.

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