I think you're romanticizing stunt-people with "some people really love doing crazy shit and making wild art." Most professionals don't want to take risks with their lives, they just do it because they need to get paid.

In the vast majority of stories you hear, the actor/stunt-person dies because the director/coordinator/other staff was negligent.

It's obviously not reasonable to expect for a stunt-person's job to be as safe as office work, but "they are the ones choosing to risk their own lives" is bs.

> Stuntmen and Stuntwomen know what they are signing up for.

_Everyone_ knows what they're signing up for, so the only interpretation I can make here is that you believe there should be no protections for employees.

> Most professionals don't want to take risks with their lives, they just do it because they need to get paid.

This is making it sound like they're forced to choose their profession and take risks. If I were to guess, the truth is probably completely the opposite - the only reason they got into it was because of the thrill of stuntman work.

Reminds me of this Vonnegut short story:

  "amendments to the Constitution dictate that all Americans are fully equal and not allowed to be smarter, better-looking, or more physically able than anyone else. The Handicapper General's agents enforce the equality laws, forcing citizens to wear "handicaps": masks for those who are too beautiful, loud radios that disrupt thoughts inside the ears of intelligent people, and heavy weights for the strong or athletic. "

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harrison_Bergeron