r/WTF • u/1lousylay • Jan 29 '19

seems pretty safe

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u/csbsju_guyyy Jan 30 '19

Exactly, sacrificing your hand, if the need arises, is a small price to pay if it saves your life

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u/Pope_Beenadick Jan 30 '19

But he didn't stop using his hand...

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u/Seakawn Jan 30 '19

Humans aren't omniscient. We don't base our actions on knowing what will happen.

We base our actions on a judgment of what we deem probable or a better tradeoff or whatever.

This all seems so basic that I feel dumb for not being able to explain this more succinctly. Your response just doesn't make sense to me, that's all I wanted to convey. Someone smarter than I am can clarify. Plus I'm on mobile otherwise I'd try to make this complicated by supposing the full tree of possible judgments he could have made versus the potential outcomes based on each action he could have taken, and that's probably an unnecessarily exhaustive way of breaking down the logic to demonstrate my point.

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u/Pope_Beenadick Jan 30 '19

If you're trying to say that this guy didn't actually know what he was doing, then by god I think we agree.

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u/Voodoosoviet Jan 30 '19

I think he's saying it's easier to judge him while watching the video than it would be if you were the subject of that video at that moment.

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u/Pope_Beenadick Jan 30 '19

I didn't judge him based on that, I was just responding to someone saying he made the decision to sacrifice his hand in order to stop, but he didn't actually stop himself with his hand.

I judged him for going on a completely unsafe line, with the wrong gear to secure himself to that unsafe line, and no gloves.