Originally posted by Volfy
Personally, I don't much care for scrambled eggs or spring starters. 
Personal tastes and pesonally safety, respectively. Every since I got my fingers whacked by an OS Max .28 spinning a wood prop at idle decades ago, I'd rather not touch that prop if I can help it. These days, I play with much bigger and angrier beasts. As much as I'm extremely cautious around that prop, all it takes is a moment of inattention to cost me my digits.
Volfy,
Do you hand start your much larger and angrier beasts with your hand or do you have a MEGA electric starter. Either way you have to touch the prop at some point.
Like the man said, to each his own.
I lost the end of my thumb to my G-38 and it didn't stop me from enjoying the sport. Sometimes bad things happen to good people but that's no reason to stop doing something. Just don't do the same thing in the same way.