Don’t Engage in High-Risk Activities
Perhaps a more appropriate quote for yesterday would have been another by Voltaire: “Common sense is not so common.”
Lets face it, people do stupid things on a daily basis, and sometimes it costs them their lives. (Darwin Awards, anybody?)
Examples:
- Illuminating your car’s gasoline tank with a Zippo
- Flipping off gang-bangers
- Looking down the barrel of a gun
- Looking down the barrel of a loaded gun
- Looking down the barrel of a loaded gun and then pulling the trigger
- Standing on a rooftop and yelling “watch this!”
- Practicing knife-fighting with your friends
- Practicing gun-fighting with your friends
- Crossing an intersection diagonally with or without a vehicle
- Planning a summer getaway to Somalia
- Planning a summer getaway to Somalia on your yacht
There are many more examples, but past a certain point, I’m afraid I’m giving out more ideas than anything else.
Seriously, though, think about what’s generally a dangerous thing to do, and then consider whether or not you really need to do whatever it is.
More specifics to come about this later… I’m too snarky today to write anything of value. (Can you tell?)
