That’s like claiming that mowing your lawn is super dangerous because one time your dumb ass friend got wasted and drove his mower into the pool.
if you’re a beginner you belong on a beginner hill. Skiing is pretty damn safe as long as you use proper judgement.
If you smack into a tree and die because you can’t control yourself then that is a judgement issue. No different then falling on your ass because you decided to take a walk on an icy hill.
Walking is safe. Walking on an icy hill isn’t. See the difference?
Hundreds of people die skiing worldwide each year. Skiing is vastly more dangerous than ice hockey, a sport where people with blades on their feet fight each other.
And that’s not mentioning the hundreds of thousands of injuries.
Skiing is not nearly as safe as you claim it is, so stop being such an asshole about it.
You can pull out all the statistics you want but nothing will change the fact that your buddy is dead because they decided to do something more dangerous than the actual sport.
It’s really easy to say skiing is dangerous. But you can’t just admit that your friend died being reckless, not because skiing is “dangerous”.
Sounds like you’re just another asshole on lemmy. Grats.
She was not being reckless, she missed a turn and ended up falling into a pit where she couldn’t stop and hit a tree.
Skiing is not as safe as you claim it is.
And no, you’re a special kind of asshole, because you flippantly discount someone’s death due to an accident, because you can’t accept your precious sport isn’t as perfectly safe as you think it is.
You don’t understand accidents. A sudden unexpected ice patch can send someone down hard. A build-up of soft snow without good support underneath can create an invisible pit that can be fallen into.
I skied and snowboarded for over a decade, and was considered quite good, and the only reason I don’t do it these days is I don’t live near a hill.
But I am smart enough to acknowledge there are plenty of risks, and it is possible to get seriously injured or die as a result of the sport even if you work hard to eliminate those risks.
You’re stupid statement that it’s perfectly safe is the exact idiotic statement that gets people killed, because it makes it sound like there is no risk.
You could try not being an asshole.
People do get injured and die skiing. It is not as safe as you claim it is. And you’re being a complete asshole about it.
And slaloming down the side of a mountain on some planks of wood is far more dangerous than walking, and you fucking know that.
That’s like claiming that mowing your lawn is super dangerous because one time your dumb ass friend got wasted and drove his mower into the pool.
if you’re a beginner you belong on a beginner hill. Skiing is pretty damn safe as long as you use proper judgement.
If you smack into a tree and die because you can’t control yourself then that is a judgement issue. No different then falling on your ass because you decided to take a walk on an icy hill.
Walking is safe. Walking on an icy hill isn’t. See the difference?
Wow, so still a complete asshole.
Hundreds of people die skiing worldwide each year. Skiing is vastly more dangerous than ice hockey, a sport where people with blades on their feet fight each other.
And that’s not mentioning the hundreds of thousands of injuries.
Skiing is not nearly as safe as you claim it is, so stop being such an asshole about it.
I am all for saying XYZ is dangerous but at least give a compelling example. Someone using zero judgement isn’t a good example.
Otherwise next you’ll claim that using a wheel chair is dangerous because one time your friend died because they tried to jump the Grand Canyon.
600 deaths and 600,000 injuries a year as a result of a sport a small minority of people take part in. Skiing is not as safe as you claim.
And you’re still a colossal asshole.
Everyone is an asshole. Woopty dooo.
You can pull out all the statistics you want but nothing will change the fact that your buddy is dead because they decided to do something more dangerous than the actual sport.
It’s really easy to say skiing is dangerous. But you can’t just admit that your friend died being reckless, not because skiing is “dangerous”.
Sounds like you’re just another asshole on lemmy. Grats.
She was not being reckless, she missed a turn and ended up falling into a pit where she couldn’t stop and hit a tree.
Skiing is not as safe as you claim it is.
And no, you’re a special kind of asshole, because you flippantly discount someone’s death due to an accident, because you can’t accept your precious sport isn’t as perfectly safe as you think it is.
It’s as dangerous as you want it to be. That’s the part your tiny brain cannot grasp.
Some people suck terribly at risk management and clearly you’re in that category.
Sounds reckless to me. But then again you don’t understand risk management.
You don’t understand accidents. A sudden unexpected ice patch can send someone down hard. A build-up of soft snow without good support underneath can create an invisible pit that can be fallen into.
I skied and snowboarded for over a decade, and was considered quite good, and the only reason I don’t do it these days is I don’t live near a hill.
But I am smart enough to acknowledge there are plenty of risks, and it is possible to get seriously injured or die as a result of the sport even if you work hard to eliminate those risks.
You’re stupid statement that it’s perfectly safe is the exact idiotic statement that gets people killed, because it makes it sound like there is no risk.