just put it under natural selection

It literally is though. People have been doingstupid shit for recognition for ages and getting killed.

Call it what you will. Darwin award or whatever, but as long as people pay attention, they will find a way to do stupid risky shit for clout, regardless of how idiot-proof we attempt to make society.

Evel Kneivel was jumping canyons on a dirt bike long before social media. People doing death defying stunts is a tail as old as time. I've watched many videos of kids climbing towers and doing stupid shit like hanging of the edge well over a decade ago too. It's not Honnold that pushed them there

If is doing some heavy lifting here. Granted, free climbers don't tend to live to an old age, but at least with something like Taipei, it was approved and setup with people that know the risks.

This is a you're not wrong, just an asshole situation. There was actually a cluster of free solo deaths in 2024 in Colorado cause this shit was getting popular.

Free solo climbers used to be an incredibly small group with a death rate that rival people who use those gliding suits and thread the needle under bridges. It's a community of people like cave divers, they understand death is a likely part, the people attracted to this (no matter what they personally say) are either ok with dying or have disassociated the risk so much that they don't take it seriously enough.

Alex Honold will get more people killed by getting them interested in free soloing, traditional rock climbing by comparison is like tennis level safe.

You're the one who wants him to die. He wants to live and show how cool free climbing is.

7 people on a niche platform that saw your post. Millions saw free solo and millions more watched him climb Taipei yesterday. If you don't like it, don't watch it. It's that simple. Wishing death on him and then saying it's somehow promoting suicide is some dumbass shit. It's an extreme sport, clearly not your thing.

I would just grin and say something about eventualities.