mykepagan

There were a few rides that presented about the same level of danger as a ski slope. People can get killed on even intermediate ski slopes, but we don’t consider that to be a problem. The difference is that people have an expectation of something that looks like an amusement park ride being perfectly safe and not requiring any involvement from the rider.

I can assure you it was not. I’ve been to many water parks and in a picture, Action Park looked the same. Many of the rides were the same, but about a quarter of them were not. When you are 18 years old and get off a ride thinking “I wonder if any lawyers or insurance people were consulted before they designed this thing?” You know it was some place... unusual.

To be fair, it was a similar level of danger as any black-diamond ski run today. For some reason society is okay with challenging ski runs, probably because people recognize the danger. The Action Park rides seem crazy to us because we have an expectation that amusement park rides are engineered to present no real risk and require no real involvement from the user. At Action Park, you could hurt yourself if you didn’t recognize that you were responsible for your own safety.

Just a note to thank you for doing a concert in my town in 2019. My aspiring flutist (floutist?) daughter (who was 14 years old at the time) was beside herself with excitement at seeing you. As was I and my wife, given that one of our first dates 29 years ago was a Jethro Tull concert. No wonder we spawned a Tull fan! :-)

Foul you kno anything about “retinal albinism”? That is the latest diagnosis I have (third retinologist in 20 years). I’ve had a mild vision impairment fo most of my adult life, with multiple different diagnoses. I am told that it is steady state and does not get worse.

I do not have albinism, but My dad have unusually fair skin compared to my family (who are olive-skinned Sicilian descent)

What is your response to the statement: “Other industrialized countries used coal as a fuel to develop their economies, so it would be unfair and hypocritical to prevent developing countries from doing the same”?