In Russian Roulette, the outcome you get by playing it a few times is different from the average outcome of a few people playing it once.
Feel free to play Russian Roulette by pointing the gun at your skull, but do not play it by pointing the gun at the ecosystem.
Ever since a young age, we are taught that a cost-benefit analysis determines whether it is a good idea to do something. If the gains are larger than the losses, then you can go ahead. The real world begs to differ. There are cases in which it is a terrible idea to do something whose gains are larger than its losses. This applies to “Russian Roulette” situations.
The rules and odds of the Russian Roulette do not change over time, and yet your payoff does. Due to irreversibility, losses absorb future gains.
For example, Russian Roulette is non-ergodic because the lifetime outcome differs from the population outcome. If you decide to keep playing it because you fail to grasp its non-ergodicity and mistakenly believe that your lifetime outcome equals your population one, you will end up dead. Ergodicity