If it were dangerous, birds and bats wouldn't do it.
Read the quote again. And focus on the words "inherently" and "incapacity" (which was exactly your point). High standards are set to ensure that aviators do it right, not to enable them to survive when they do it wrong.
Ask the insurance companies. At the end of my career I had not paid additional premiums for military flying for over 30 years. And that included some "interesting" flying about which I kept my companies informed. This is commonplace in Military Flying.
Statistics tell all, Genghis; you should know about that.
[This message has been edited by fobotcso (edited 16 January 2001).]