[PSUBS-MAILIST] Titan submersible missing at Titanic site

[Marc de Piolenc via Personal_Submersibles]

Reason magazine had it right. Nobody has the right to prohibit somebody 
else from risking his life, whether it's the nincompoop going over 
Niagara Falls in a wooden barrel or skydivers passing a parachute to one 
another in mid-air. The only possible wrong-doing would have been if the 
operators had told prospective passengers that the submersible was 
Certified, Authorized, Classed or otherwise Blessed by the Omniscient 
Nanny State or The Experts, but that is not what happened. In fact, they 
were told (and made to acknowledge this in writing) that the craft was 
experimental and that their use of it could result in loss of life.  The 
other "issue," acerbically brought up by the political Left, was the use 
of public resources to search for them, but that differs only in scale 
from a Sheriff's Department helicopter being used to rescue mountain 
climbers. If one is wrong, so is the other, but if one is right...

The central question is: do we own our own lives? If so, we are free men 
and free to take risks and accept the consequences of taking them. If not...

Marc de Piolenc

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