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I prefer to let people make their own choices, otherwise the alternative might just be to ban everyone from doing everything even remotely dangerous anywhere on the entire planet (who's laws will apply?)

If people want to do risky things, that's their business.

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Bullshit. When the expectation is that we'll fund any potential rescue efforts when something invariably goes wrong with our tax dollars, it becomes the rest of our business pretty damn quickly.

Back country skiing? sky diving? Scuba diving? Hiking deep into the wilderness?

All of those require search and rescue type operations, should we ban them?

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