Some of us are grown up and don't need to be nannied. People die in their bathrooms all the time, doesn't mean we shouldn't go to the bathroom.
Hiking in Hong Kong is a damn sight objectively* safer than a lot of popular outdoor destinations. It's certainly the safest place that I have spent any 'wilderness' time in.
* Bugger all poisonous fauna, stable geology, good phone coverage, usually a handful of kms from habitation, freakishly responsive emergency services.