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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Lane3 who wrote (11203)	4/13/2001 11:47:23 AM
From: Neocon	Respond to of 82486

Perhaps, but I will have to get back to you on that.....

To: Lane3 who wrote (11203)	4/13/2001 12:20:04 PM
From: Dayuhan	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 82486

Your aversion to extreme sport seems to me quite like Steven's initial probability screen. Experience has shown each of you that there's someplace not worth going. There are more differences than similarities, I suspect. Extreme sport is not part of a quest for truth or understanding. It's a simple matter of mastering a skill, putting it into practice, and reaping the rewards, which are considerable, if utterly inexplicable to the uninitiated. Risk is chiefly a matter of perception; most extreme sports are less dangerous than an afternoon drive. The closest behavioural analogy I can think of would be learning to play a musical instrument. In either case the decision over whether or not to participate is driven by a comparison between the perceived difficulty of learning the skill and the perceived value of the reward, the kicker of course being that when the decision is made, you don't know how hard the skill will be to learn or what the reward for learning it will be. Deciding what to believe is fundamentally different from deciding what to do.