What Attracts People To Danger?

[KoolHndLuke]

I honestly have never really understood this. Yes, safe is boring. But, danger is......well, you know, sometimes life threatening. I can understand needing to brave danger in order to get something important done. However, seeking danger as a thrill? I never saw the appeal or felt the need. And very often when I have been around thrill seekers, they don't know when to quit or say enough is enough. What do you think?

[spoonsinger]

Toxoplasma gondii parasite.

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0006166

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/Bf1LymzTDkQFzgh4MHg7mN/how-your-parasites-affect-you

[Durante]

I'd suspect some lack self-preservation or something to sustain them. So they get their kick from the adrenaline rush. It's highly addictive.

[Sir Artsy]

Adrenaline is strong drug.

[NickNozownik]

Doing something risky just feels good. Simple real life example, I had to go up a ladder with a chainsaw to cut down some tree branches. The ladder stood on uneven ground and a single bad step means falling on the ground and breaking my bones with a running chainsaw in my hands. Everyone told me to wait for a better solution and generally fuck this shit, but I did it anyway.

 

Yup, I did it. I can gen shit done. Feels good.

[Darkpig]

Stupidity...

[Resdayn]

Adrenaline, as said before pure stupidity, looking for risky fun, lack of self preservation or just some pretty ignorant oft he actual dangers of situation.

 

One of them or combinations of them.

[blatter900]

From my own long term experience in a genuinely risky real world activity with rissk level similar to base jumping, I expect that adrenaline rush and effects of dopemine play a part.

But for me there is also a deep satisfaction at achieving success (survival?) through applying skills and experience gained through hard work over time, where consequences of failure are real and very significent and include serious injury and death.

New experiences and exploration of new places makes life interesting, as does developing and improving skills and knowledge, whether the activity is risky or not, although a level of risk adds a little spice to the game.

And I suspect that for many the ability and willingness to participate in a risk taking activity becomes linked to self image and sense of self worth.