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Climbing ropes are built to stretch. If you took a 15-20ft fall on a rope without any stretch (like with a steel cable) it would catch you just fine, but it would also snap your spine.

Newton's second law: Force equals mass times acceleration. If there is no stretch your (de)acceleration is very high, this results in forces that are very high.

My organs and bones don't like very high forces.

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