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I don't have any issue at all with people doing what they love. I am just slightly worried about him putting others to risk, should he fall and possibly hit someone. Anyone feeling the same?

Besides that, do whatever you want, even if I don't agree with it or its motivations. I am not the ruler of the world.

People tend to get overly emotional with these subjects because they usually project themselves onto their opinions and if they get a nasty rebuttal, they feel it like a personal attack or w/e. Being brutally honest: It's his body and will and he's free to do whatever he wants with it, except harm others without their consent.

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I feel the same way about https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%27%C3%A9tait_un_rendez-vous. Lots of my friends adore it, but the first thought I had when watching it was 'what if somebody was crossing the road?'

I don't agree. We stop people from doing dangerous things all the time: we signpost dangerous substances or locations (like high voltage rooms), we have rules for safe driving and safe crossing of traffic, we control the trading of toxic substances and lethal weapons and so on.

You don't have to be "the ruler of the world" to be interested in protecting people form themselves. It's more like a moral responsibility that we have to each other. And something that comes natural to many people too- for instance, if someone walks too close to the edge of a building etc, someone's always likely to yell out "be careful" or someting along those lines.

And for good reason. People just want to protect each other. That's nothing to do with curtailing personal freedoms, or trying to rule it over each other. It's much more to do with caring about each other.

These buildings are high enough that he should be carrying an emergency parachute to prevent killing a person on the ground should he fall.

The first time I saw the shanghi tower video, I actually thought he was going to BASE jump because he initially had a backpack on.

But, many of these situations guys are putting themselves in wouldn't be helped by a parachute. If they fall close to the structure getting the chute to open is going to be a problem.

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