David Weinshenker wrote:
Didn't airplane flight endure the same sort of scepticism (fueled by the varying results of numerous more-or-less-well- prepared efforts) in the early years?
Certainly it did, but not in a societal environment typified by "Someone died trying this? We need to ban this activity entirely!" The modern "protect everyone from everything, whether they want protected or not" attitudes simply didn't exist in the 'teens and twenties of the 20th century; it was still considered brave and manly to take risks, and romantic to die in the process.
We live in an era where some people have seriously attempted to ban mountain climbing on the grounds that a few people die in attempted ascents every year.
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