If you know your car well as im sure drivers like craggy, paddy do, the risk when driving fast is greatly reduced, obviously you cant help if a deer or small animal runing out in the road and you cant avoid it, but if you know your cars performance well then why not have a bit of fun?
If you act like that saying "thats far too dangerous" all the time, you might as well throw away your 172 keys or whatever car you own and go and lock ya self up in a padded room for the rest of your life.
At the end of the day, as people know anything can happen in life, so if you dont take risks from time to time, its gonna be too late before you have some fun!