There are times that it's definitely better to be safe than sorry. Running across a busy road, SCUBA diving and experimenting with recreational drugs, to name a few.

And back when life was a lot more precarious, better safe than sorry was probably a good mantra to live by. “There's probably a lion down there… what the heck, nothing ventured nothing gained.” This sort of attitude was likely to get your DNA removed from the gene pool in a hurry, even if they didn’t have the Darwin Awards back in the day.