re: CEO of the missing Titanic submarine "didn't want to hire 50 year old White guys"

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"You know, at some point, safety just is pure waste," said Rush. "I mean, if you just want to be safe, don't get out of bed. Don't get in your car. Don't do anything. At some point, you're going to take some risk, and it really is a risk/reward question. I think I can do this just as safely by breaking the rules."

In the year he left UC Berkeley, he personally built a Glasair III experimental aircraft

Some things in life...are best left to Conservatives...

Who take things seriously.

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It is not in the nature of conservatives to take un-necessary risks. Explorers and adventurer's are not conservative by nature. At some point you must weigh risks and determine your level of risk tolerance. It is the job of conservatives to temper the dreamer...think about kids trying to fly off a roof with a piece of plywood for wings....if you have a bunch of kids excited about the idea one of them is probably gonna get hurt...add one kid in the mix who is conservative in risk acceptance and that kid is liable to convince the rest they are out of their damned minds...

I fished 135 miles offshore 2 weeks ago. That is a pretty risky undertaking...many people would not do it. You couldn't get me in a submarine headed for the titanic without hitting me in the head...but at least 4 people were willing to pay $250K a head to do so...there ain't NOTHING conservative about that...I also ain't climbing a mountain, jumping out of perfectly good airplane, bungee jumping...but many people do, very few of them are conservative in nature...they do it for the thrill, about as far from conservative as one can get.