Should crossing the road be banned?
Nobody forces anyone to run the London Marathon. Just like nobody forces anyone to join the army and end up serving on the front line in Afghanistan.
To be fair, the army analogy is a little different - you aren't forced to join up, but once in you are pretty much forced to do what they tell you - including the front line in Afghanistan. And expecting to go on the front line means an expectation of very real danger to life
I was making a point which clearly went over your head. Let me clarify. Life is about choices. Some choices carry more of a mortal risk than others. We live in a free society where we are free to make life choices.
I was not making an analogy as you said,I was in fact contrasting the potential life choices we are all free to make with the potential risk to life which those choices may bring.
For all we know, the added motivation of the existence of the London marathon has caused X amount of people to lose weight & therefore live another 10 years+.
I'd be in favour of more information, perhaps even advise people to get a health check-up before hand - but a flat ban can't be said to gain or cost lives.