It Don't Mean A Thing If It Ain't Got Death's Sting

MayorBob.

Posted to Etcetera on Wed May 07, 2008 at 05:44:36 AM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.

From bungee jumping to all sorts of extreme sports -- people do crazy things because the thrill achieved by risking one's life makes the experience worth it.  Would the experience still be worth it if the risk were removed?  Is it even the same experience? These questions are being raised in Japan by a group of merchants involved in the fugu trade.  Put quite plainly, if you eat a dish of fugu or puffer fish which hasn't been prepared properly, you can die.  But now they're selling non-poisonous fugu.  The merchants involved in selling the toxic versions are upset at the potential loss of business.  They also pose the question of whether living a risk-free life is a life at all.

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