Fappy said:
What is the point of driving a jeep out of a plane just to immediately bail out with a parachute?!?!?!?!
Um, it's fun, that's why.
Seriously, when did we start asking why we do stunts in a consequence free environment that allows us to be as dumb as we want without getting any real punishment?
Stunts are probably a blast to do in real life, but there's always a massive chance you could get burned, broken, sliced, diced, arrested (if it's illegal), smashed, crushed, based, eaten, and various other things. In a virtual reality setting, you're using a digital avatar that only takes 5 hours and 200 dollars to heal up after falling off the empire state building, and you don't even have to actually wait 5 hours. It's like being given an official jackass license.
You don't see people questioning why a guy is stabbing himself and setting himself on fire in 5 minutes to kill yourself, do you?