Why Not Ban Swimming?

Texas has banned high dives from their swimming pools. Someone could get hurt, you know?

And I'll add something to the obvious points being made elsewhere about this quote:

So even though Kerry Little, assistant superintendent of aquatics for Richardson, says [since the 1964 opening] no one had ever suffered an injury while jumping from the high dive, it had to be torn down this past winter.

This of course makes the ban seem even more ridiculous, but I don't even like the implication of what's being said: that if one person had suffered an injury while jumping from the high dive, it would justify banning them. I don't buy that for a second.

(By the way: the cynical piece linked to above, from the Dallas/Fort Worth Magazine, is excellent)