[bt4u2]

This is silly. Don't reduce me to some risk averse weakling because I'm not willing to put my neck out for strangers for little to no reward. If you're like that, and you regularly go to Africa to help people, more power to you. I'm not. Most people are not.

[dang]

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14676851 and marked it off-topic.

[sokoloff]

> I'm not willing to put my neck out for strangers for little to no reward

Part of my point is that is often exactly what is required of leaders.

[bt4u2]

No good leader is taking unnecessary risks. In fact, if you study history, taking unnecessary risks has been the downfall of many otherwise great leaders