• And what about the poor person who witnesses you smash into the back of a bus, possibly ending up under it. Then attempt to resuscitate you, but fails, and then is left emotionally scared for life? Does that count as being hurt?

    Not really, no. I do plenty of things which, if things went badly wrong, might end up with me being killed or seriously injured. Mountain biking, motor racing and off-piste skiing, for example. I don't draft buses, because for me the risk/reward balance doesn't work, but I'm not going to start living my life wrapped up in cotton wool just so that I don't run the risk of upsetting someone if I end up bearing the consequences of my own decisions.

  • Yes that's fine. Those are all living life activities. But like you said, risk reward for drafting a bus isn't good enough. My point is, people should not be potentially pissing their lives away with reckless actions such as bus drafting, and then claiming it's okay because it only hurts them, when clearly it doesn't.

  • No, I said the risk/reward balance wasn't good enough for me. For other people the risk/reward balance for mountain biking, motor racing and off-piste skiing isn't good enough, and that's fine, because they don't have to do any of them. But to claim that there's a substantive difference between any of them and drafting buses just because they're 'life living activities' while drafting buses isn't seems to me nothing more than an attempt to impose your own subjective views on what is worthwhile on someone else's decision on how they live their life. I'm sure there are many people who think that motor racing and off-piste skiing is stupidly dangerous and shouldn't be done by anyone with half a brain. In fact, I know there are - I'm related to some of them. But ultimately it's my decision, not theirs. And while I wouldn't do it myself, I can't see why drafting buses is any different, objectively.

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