I think there is no doubt of it whatsoever. The attempt to eliminate all risk from life is not only futile, it is STUPID. We learn by experience, and without risk there can be no experience of risk. That leads to a generation of decision-makers who have no conception or understanding of risk, and then sooner or later, someone says, "Well, what could possibly go wrong?" And we all know what happens after somebody says that.

We are, for the most part quite unaware, selectively breeding humanity for cowardice, fecklessness, incompetence and dependence; industriously teaching everyone that it's Somebody Else's Problem. Somebody Else will take care of it. Somebody Else will get it done. Somebody Else will fix it. Somebody Else will make it all right.

And then comes the day when Something Bad happens, and everyone is looking around for Somebody Else to fix it, and all they can see is everyone else looking back at them with their own frightened, bewildered, lost, helpless eyes.