Cultural and Technological Consequences of Racial Daredevil trait

[vicky_molokh]

Greetings, all!

What would be the long-term results of a race having Daredevil, and developing from TL0 to TL9? I'm primarily looking for generic analysis, though it would help if the analysis was also made for a race which also had Honesty (Racial Only -20%) and a 1-TL advantage in aviation over other cultures (ending up TL10 in aerospace technologies while TL9 in others), and slightly retarded in Biotech (later invention of cattle-keeping, and basically zero farming due to being carnivorous) - -1 to bio-TL.

Obviously they'll have fewer safety regulations due to virtually never suffering from CritFails. If they go to war, they can get away with commanders taking higher Risk Modifier (MC spelling?), and riskier maneouvres in general. They should certainly see improvement in risky activities where no safety devices/measures are available, due to effectively having them (again, through the +1 to rolls and the crit rerolls).

What else?
Thanks in advance!

[lexington]

Originally Posted by vicky_molokh

Obviously they'll have fewer safety regulations due to virtually never suffering from CritFails.

I doubt this would be true. Daredevil only protects you when you take unnecessary risks. When driving to work it won't help.

[Corlock Striker]

Originally Posted by lexington

I doubt this would be true. Daredevil only protects you when you take unnecessary risks. When driving to work it won't help.

But if one is a daredevil, it's quite likely that one is speeding while on the way to work, and weaving in and out of traffic constantly, and since the entire race has daredevil, it's quite likely everyone is doing this. They'd seek out the adreniline rush.

[vicky_molokh]

Originally Posted by lexington

I doubt this would be true. Daredevil only protects you when you take unnecessary risks. When driving to work it won't help.

Driving above safe speed, or without a seatbelt, is an unnecessary risk.

[whswhs]

Originally Posted by vicky_molokh

Driving above safe speed, or without a seatbelt, is an unnecessary risk.

It's a well established finding in policy research that when people have the choice to wear seatbelts or not, the ones who choose to do so drive more recklessly, on the average, to the point that there is no net gain in safety. It's sort of a psychological analog of Le Chatelier's Principle.

Bill Stoddard

[MatthewVilter]

Originally Posted by whswhs

It's a well established finding in policy research that when people have the choice to wear seatbelts or not, the ones who choose to do so drive more recklessly, on the average, to the point that there is no net gain in safety. It's sort of a psychological analog of Le Chatelier's Principle.

Bill Stoddard

I would be interested in reading about this.

Don't you always have the choice not to wear seat belts? This would imply to me that seat belts don't improve safety at all...

[whswhs]

Originally Posted by MatthewVilter

Don't you always have the choice not to wear seat belts? This would imply to me that seat belts don't improve safety at all.

It's harder to do statistical research on behavior that breaks the law.

The Wikipedia article Seat Belt Legislation cites the basic findings.

Bill Stoddard

[David Johnston2]

Originally Posted by vicky_molokh

Greetings, all!

What would be the long-term results of a race having Daredevil, and developing from TL0 to TL9? I'm primarily looking for generic analysis, though it would help if the analysis was also made for a race which also had Honesty (Racial Only -20%) and a 1-TL advantage in aviation over other cultures (ending up TL10 in aerospace technologies while TL9 in others), and slightly retarded in Biotech (later invention of cattle-keeping, and basically zero farming due to being carnivorous) - -1 to bio-TL.

Obviously they'll have fewer safety regulations due to virtually never suffering from CritFails.

Amusingly, they'll still have more fatal accidents since when you are taking unnecessary risks you don't need a critical fail to kill yourself. They'd probably be lousy tacticians just because they'd get better results from scream and leap approaches.

And no, carnivores can't avoid farming. They need fodder for their animals, and truth to tell, they need it to stretch out their own food supplies. Dog and cat food isn't 100% meat unless it's really pricey stuff and there's a reason for that.

[sir_pudding]

Originally Posted by vicky_molokh

Honesty (Racial Only -20%)

Haven't you suggested this before? I don't see how Racial Only is applicable to Honesty. What does that even mean? Laws aren't racial, they are cultural.

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