Raise your hand, let me know. Pretty risky sports, huh. And some people can't get enough of them. Every year 4,000 more people take up the high risk sport of rock climbing. Twenty-five thousand people shoot the rapids of the Colorado River each summer.
Some people enjoy taking huge, death defying risks.
They find it exhilarating, empowering, just plain fun. Most of us don't fall into that huge risk taking category, but we all take some risks every day, small ones, medium sized ones, rather large ones. Every time we leave our front door and get behind the wheel of our car we take a huge risk, the risk that we will be able to keep a 2000 pound vehicle on the road, driving straight, and that everyone around us will be able to do the same. When we buy food in a store there is a certain risk that it will have some organisms in it which shouldn't be there. We risk our happiness by getting married, we risk our futures by having children.