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Safety sucks. Ultimately it only breeds unsafe people. I was nearly electrocuted when I was a tot and now look at me. I’m alive and I have a respect for electricity thats uncommon amongst those raised in safer environments.

In fact, I have a theory that one of the reasons for the “Jackass Effect” is that people are compelled to fill an instinctual norm by actually injecting their lives with semi-dangerous situations. Hey think about it, Homosapiens (and everything that led up to them) evolved in an extreme world devoid of comfort as we know it. It would make total sense that our physiology and psychology would have adapted to anticipate danger and to actually thrive on it. Now with all of this increasingly (and might I add FASCIST safety) we find ourselves living in conditions that are exponentially farther and farther removed from those that nature designed us for. Therefor, this creates an “unfulfillment” of sorts, that I suppose, could manifest itself unconsciously a number of ways ranging from a general ennui to compulsive reckless behavior.

I also believe that this trend is also making us fundamentally weaker as well. The human ability of reasoning and changing our environment has allowed our ancestors to avoid or negate danger to the extent that it is clearly evidenced by our dependence on medicine and our overall flimsiness. There is no animal on Earth as sickly as man. Coming in at a close second would be domesticated dogs (whom we’ve been selectively breeding for nearly as long as we ourselves have been “humans”). No other creature as poor at having young as man. And on and on and on. This is due to how, over the millenia, we’ve had the brain power to save individuals who, under natural circumstances, would have been weeded out by weakness.

What is most disturbing is that these increasingly ANAL safety regulations are really accomplishing nothing more than sparing the lives of fatally stupid people so they can father the next generation.

Safety has its place, but there is definitely a line that’s being crossed. People have to be allowed to die.

The End(?)