There's a problem with forcing the player to go inside of the danger zone. Forcing them to go inside the danger zone is forcing the player to kill themselves overtime.
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Well, the game's entire purpose is for you to enter and leave the danger zone as quickly as possible to ensure your danger level doesn't go up too much. Plus, the danger level resets to 0 after a few seconds. If they have no reason ever to enter the danger zone, then, well, there's no challenge to the game.