Handcuffed by a Dumbass

[Schneed10]

Originally Posted by cpayne5

Actually, I would LOVE to compare these. Got some numbers???

That Guy is right. The golf club in the head thing? That's so absurd it makes me laugh. What's the probability that's going to happen to you if you go golfing? Tearing an ACL running on the beach? Just going for a jog right? Still extremely, absurdly low probability.

Getting on an ATV, much higher probability of injury. Maybe not as high for you, since you have tons of experience with it. For you it's probably relatively safe. But you also don't make a million dollars a year. No matter how good you are at it, and how careful you are with it, it's still dumb to risk losing your MILLION DOLLARS A YEAR.

If you want to assess how risky something is, simply look at an insurance premium to cover it. What costs more, the medical coverage on your Auto policy, or the medical coverage on your motorcycle policy? It's a no brainer. The motorcycle coverage costs more because it's riskier to your health than a car is. Cut and dry, those are facts you can look up instead of goofy probabilities of tearing an ACL while running on the beach.

You're also not simply concerned with the probabilty that an injury will occur. You also have to concern yourself with how bad the injury will be if I do get hurt. Running on the beach and tearing an ACL, though absurdly improbable, would put you out of work for a year. Flipping an ATV could paralyze you.

I'll argue this until I'm blue in the face. It comes down to people choosing "fun" over "smart". Rabach chose "fun", so I'm calling him dumb.