and look at the mindset lampooned by the article. There is a growing "safety at any cost" mindset out there that defies all reason. The "if it'll save only one life, then it's worth whatever the cost" argument is very lame. Would anyone argue that we should pay the entire $2+ trillion national budget to save a single life? No? How about $100 billion? $10 billion? $1 billion? No? Then, they're admitting that there is a value beyond which we won't pay to save a life, in effect, that there is a price tag on that life.

A life without risk isn't possible. A person can decide to stay home behind locked doors - only to face the reality that most accidents happen at home. Driving is dangerous. Riding a bike is dangerous. Flying is dangerous. Eating the wrong food (or too much food) is dangerous. Hell, everything has a degree of danger. The one universal truth of life is that it has a 100% mortality rate. No one gets out of here alive.