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2. IF YOUR FRIENDS
JUMPED OF A BRIDGE…
“Oh yeah! Tell me this… If • How high is the bridge?
• Will they be using bungee
your friends jumped off a cords?
• Is there water below?
bridge, would you?”
• How deep is the water?
Parents have posed this question for To insinuate that jumping off a bridge
decades. The obvious answer is is a dumb move, without further
supposed to be “No.” The point, of qualification, isn’t fair.
course, is that you shouldn’t do
something just because everyone else Beyond that, you need to take into
is doing it. account the type of person who’s
being asked that question. Are they
It’s not even a question you’re daring? Are they comfortable with
expected to answer. It’s rhetorical. In taking a risk? Are they calculated
fact, you’re not even supposed to ask about the risks they take? Or, are
any questions back! they timid by nature?
But that question could actually stand Jumping off a bridge without thinking
to be questioned. For instance: it through is risky.
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