I carry a 1911 daily in condition 1, I'm comfortable with it. Hell, I even fell about 6 feet off of a wet log hiking with a cocked and locked .45 on my hip. Not a problem. I was raised that there is no such thing as an unloaded chamber or firearm. But to each his own.

My biggest beef with "empty" firearms/chambers is getting flagged. I've seen a lot of people flagged, and I have been flagged, because others were not muzzle aware of their "unloaded" firearms.