Some folks are adrenaline junkies. Doing this stuff when you have kids though is negligence and even worse doing it when the kid already lost one parent to the activity. Fuck those parents and anyone here that's like them.
It’s massively more risky than commercial flight travel and seems to serve no practical utility.
It’s like driving: it’s usually very safe if you don’t speed and drive tired or drunk.
Miscalculating range in a ground vehicle typically has the somewhat less than fatal outcome of being at least somewhat embarrassing.
Misjudging driving ability is largely a characteristic attributed to male drivers under the age of 25, and the overwhelming majority of incidents are more costly and ego injuring than fatal.
Last time I checked, the average driver can expect to be involved in a fatal car accident every 200 million kilometres or so (Australian data).
While general aviation appears to have a fatality rate of around 10 per million flight hours.
Average speed in a car is typically well under 100 kilometres per hour, making general aviation fatality rate 10 to 20 times higher.
Having said that, the law of small numbers informs that the average general aviation pilot can expect to be involved in a fatal incident approximately never.
However people who fly regularly tend to have crazy high total mileage compared to the ~15k miles/year of a typical American. Which is why so many general aviation pilots die relative to car crashes, it’s just inherently a very dangerous hobby.
> In 2002, at age 31, she'd gotten her degree to teach music around the time that Bill announced to the family that he was going to try to climb Huascarán.
Obviously there’s a middle ground but nobody says that giving up the thing that you love because you have kids is negligence.
Telling people to think more about having kids is a clear waste of breath. Whatever amount they think about it they’ll (almost always) rationalize that as the correct amount.