What's bothering me at the moment is that for air travel, if their is a serious problem in the air you have basically no chance of surviving a disaster. Sure, these are few and far between but for me once dead is quite enough. Traveling by sea provides you by law, since the sinking of the Titanic on 1912, passenger boats for every individual to use - which in case of a disaster gives you a fighting chance.

Point being, if you decide that dying would be pretty shitty, you have more chance dying in a freak air plane crash than on a boat, ship or cruise liner. You could argue that stranded in the middle of the ocean on a lifeboat would mean certain death, however I wonder if conditioning yourself for death or even having hope, chance is better than acute fear and imminent death - as it's possible to get rescued, especially if distress calls are made, not so in a plane. Conditioning ones self could be psychologically damaging however - but a fighting chance ulus what you get and surely that's our instinctive reaction - to try, to try and survive.

Now logically how would one factor this into practical everyday thought and action? Do we put out lives to chance or give ourselves a fighting chance but forfeit speed. Air travel is much faster but when it goes wrong, you die.

The other way of looking at it is that if you die in the air, you've really only got yourself to blame for putting yourself in a position where you will not have a fighting chance to survive. Perplexing.

you could also argue that you nay get s fighting chance to live in a air disaster - however it can be said that this is more unlikely than a sea mishap. Both suck pretty bad, don't get me wrong, but I think sea travel is safer.