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When their accepted risks have consequences for society - like cleaning up a collapsed tunnel / ocean rescue / rehab - then, yes.


> collapsed tunnel / ocean rescue / rehab

Two of those things are something society can choose to not do. Can't necessarily ignore a collapsed tunnel in certain areas, but the alternative of banning an activity can be removing responsibility of rescue.


Perhaps in China, or some other country that doesn’t value human life. In the West we generally don’t just watch people drown and say “sucks to be them.”




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