Why? If somebody wants to be an idiot shouldn't they be allowed to be one? Idiots do all sorts of idiotic things everyday; we just say "what an idiot" and move on.
Yes and no. I agree that "safety", "after the fact" is not the standard.
I do not agree with the sentiment, which you may or may not have intended to express, that we have no culpability for the risks these guys take.
We set the rules (strictly speaking, the ARRL does, but it roughly corresponds to what we want).
And, by setting the rules, it will leave some number of places, however we do it, that are more risky (and expensive) than others. But, we can change that list.
There's Snake Island off the coast of Brazil. Basically, it is a den of vipers, literally. Nobody lives there and nobody but very well prepared researchers go there.
Fortunately, it happens not to count separately under DXCC rules. If it did, we might have some crazy people try to activate it. I seem to recall one or two IOTA expeditions managed the feat somehow. No expedition to this place would ever see a dime of contribution from me
even if we somehow belatedly decided it counted separate for DXCC.
There is a place called North Sentinel, which is part of the Andaman chain. Nobody activates it -- there are easier -- and safer -- places to go. This island is remarkable because the indigenous population kills foreigners on sight -- and so far, the Indian government doesn't care about the place to actually make it inhabitable in the normal way by putting down this tribal group.
Someone might make an imaginative argument that this group of indigenous people represents a different political entity, but I hope nobody does, because I doubt if the Indian government is inclined to give anyone permission to disturb that population, which , in any case, wants to kill you.
There are ample Antarctic islands, every bit as dangerous as Bouvet, that sit too close to the continent and don't count separately. As far as I can tell from Google Earth, many don't even have names. They are just terrible, remote, and we fortunately don't have to raise millions to activate such godforsaken rocks.
But, if we wished to, we could change to rules and make all of those things a target. It would almost certainly bump up, maybe drastically, the DXpeditioner fatality rate.
Let us
not do so.