The article speaks about cliffs. Generally speaking, I usually comply with reasonable demands of not foolishly risking my life. Now you ask a quite different question.
I’m extrapolating, Jerome, as usual.
The difference between stepping near a cliff and stepping over a legal barrier might only be the level of risk a person is willing to take.
The article certainly emphasises the risk gravity imposes and we will have varying degrees of daring-do in that regard. I’m with you. Firmly died to a tree some distance from the edge.
But surely we have all stretched our tolerance or the tolerance of other factors to get a shot.
I find myself debating with my inner hero to take a shot in a doctors waiting room, or a child’s playground, a private gallery, a police station, over a fence, through a keyhole, of dead people, crime scenes, embarrassing moments, my mother in law.
The consequences only differ in their apparent and predicable severity.