motomojo:...what do you suggest be done, then, since you are implying that safety courses are not effective? Should we just give up? Leave everyone one to just figure it out on their own?
I'm not saying training is necessarily ineffective, but that crashing ultimately depends on rider risk-taking, and training doesn't have much of an effect on that basic attitude. You made the same point in an earlier post:
the rider him or herself has to take the iniative to decide that they want to assume safe riding behaviors. Like MSF says, "we all decide how much risk we want to assume".
A superior rider uses superior judgment to avoid problems that would demand his superior skill.