Will you be watching America's Tougest Job?

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I'm concerned about a new series on NBC this fall called "America's Toughest Jobs". In this series, rookies compete with each other to see who's best at a hard job- crab fishing, ice road trucking, gold digging, monster truck driving, oil rigging, bullfighting, bridge crew, logging, and search and rescue. All of which are professions which require many years of training and people tend to die while performing them. I don't see anything entertaining about watching 13 idiots try to kill themselves for money. The top prize is the combined annual salary of all nine rookie level salaries. No small pocket change of course. But is it really worth your life? Have we become so low as a society that we are amused by our fellow human beings endangering themselves? I don't think when I was a kid in the mid 80's, the censors would have even allowed this on TV. What do you think? Will you be watching? I hope by appealing to my better angels that I won't be but I know that human suffering can sometimes be tempting, even for the most progressive among us. I hope I will not be tempted.