I feel very badly for all those who have died flying paragliders. I also hope that my own personal words or actions may have stopped someone from trying or continuing to fly paragliders.
But paragliders kill more than simply the people hanging below them.
How many more hang glider pilots would there be if paragliding ended or had never begun?
So, paragliding has "killed" hang glider pilots as well. It has killed those who ended up never trying hang gliding (because of paragliding).
It has also killed the aviation spirit in individuals who, thinking that paragliding is safer than hang gliding, quit flying PGs because of how truly dangerous they are, then never gave hang gliding a chance. Why? Because they have been told hang gliding is even worse.
Paragliding has killed hang glider pilots - by killing paragliding participants who would otherwise have been fly the safer aircraft known as hang gliders.
And those who promote paragliding are knowingly acting to kill the sport of hang gliding. To what purpose? To sell something that makes them more profit and is superficially easier to teach to the unknowing.
The paragliding companies' best customer, . . . ? . . . the naive, the trusting, the impressionable, the innocent, the uninformed. Otherwise know as "children". No matter their age.
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