Non-SSC experiences?

[Ozme52]

i'm slightly in the dark here - can you please explain why you agree SSC is archaic, and RACK better, yet believe it is all semantics? there is possibly a subtlety in difference you mean...
...perhaps a different thread exists discussing this... will look!

Risky appeals more than safe. Whether you're talking about physical safety, or legal safety (exhibitionism can beget you a record, a fine, perhaps even jail time depending on who sees you whom you weren't aware of...) or relationship risky, Risk is more appealing.

But as I said earlier, what you determine to be risky today is perfectly safe later on if you've done it enough.

For example. If you were confronted with an oncoming car... hurtling toward you... risky or safe? Is there a line painted on the road between where you're standing and the path of the car? What if you were up on a curb? Risky or safe? We're talking tons of metal. Instant death if a mistake is made by either party. But you do it all the time. Risk aware or do you actually feel safe because it's uncommon for something to go wrong.

To me... it's one and the same.

(But if there was something sexually appealing to doing so... I'd prefer to be on the street than on the curb... because as safe as it appears to be, the closer to the edge of the better.)

Risk perception is worth a lot, otherwise, why skydive instead of merely parachuting (using a tether-line) out of a plane? But they're virtually identical when it comes to accident rates.