Well said fly watcher! The risk of my engine failing while I am out of gliding rang is so infinitesimally small that I am happy to take it, along with all the other risks that make up my days. It’s a personal choice but I think if you calculated the risk based on actual occurrences (rather than perceived risk) it would come far below other things people do in everyday life without a second thought.
Heres a really interesting article on risk and perceived risk.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-02-...sation/8293356