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Originally Posted by Kevin Finnerty
The issue is SOLELY about the degree of pain and damage a shot to the jewels causes. The odds of getting hit are irrelevant. If you get hit, it is intolerable, and can be horrifically injurious. If it were ankle or shin protection we were discussing, then that risk/reward thing and odds of getting hit would be relevant. There is ZERO tolerance to a jewel shot. So odds on getting hit are irrelevant.
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Do you wear a cup when you walk down the street? I assume you don't. Of course you may get hit by some very fast moving hard object and it would be horrific as you say, but the odds of it happening are so so low that you don't do wear the cup. You've made the decision that the odds of getting hit are low enough for you to not wear the protection. Other people make that same decision on the baseball field when they chose to not wear a cup.