Reply #57: Too many of these cases getting publicity

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leads to this, but we can assume you are in favor of licensing of mountain climbers, regulation of mountain climbing and someone in authority to prohibit mountain climbers from going if conditions are deemed too dangerous. And are not going to blame anyone who tries to rescue them from doing it negligently or wrong if it fails and they die anyway. In other words, if anybody gets themselves into any situation whatsoever, even if it is their fault, even if willfully their fault due to ignoring signs they shouldn't have taken the risk, then you're imposing quite a burden on society, so society would be reasonable in prohibiting those activities. Mountain climbing should just be illegal.

And sometimes people die trying to rescue others. That's a big cost of mountain climbing. We lose those people due to the risk-taking behavior of others.