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If I was a passerby I'd say hell yeah I want to watch. And I definitely don't want to live in a smelly polluted city.

katastic 9y ago
I think it's funny I got downvoted for bring up a real problem. New Hampshire, for example, is one of the few states that can send you the bill. And good for them, because in just two years, they had over 260 stranded people and cost the state >$400,000. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/nh-bills-lost-hikers-for-cost-of-rescue/ https://www.cbsnews.com/news/nh-bills-lost-hikers-for-cost-o... Cost is a known issue. Additionally sometimes search and responders die trying to rescue them. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/hiker-rescuer-killed-at-washington-state-waterfall/ https://www.cbsnews.com/news/hiker-rescuer-killed-at-washing... That guy's kids don't have a father because someone decided to be an idiot while hiking. It's like hiking is some sort of extended daycare program where people assume they'll be saved by heroes if anything happens so they don't take even the most basic of provisions. People have romanticized nature so much they don't realize "nature" loves to kill people who aren't careful. Like that "into the wild" kid who went out with no real provisions or even a map... and died less than a couples miles from a ranger station with food, water, medicine, and radios. A simple map would have shown saved him. A 1 day seminar on basic survival techniques/facts would have saved him. Using his brain would have saved him. But he didn't get in touch with nature. He committed suicide. You don't play with a high voltage transformer unless you know what you're doing... and you don't hike into the middle of frozen hell unless you know what you're doing--unless you want to die. >Alaskan Park Ranger Peter Christian wrote: >When you consider McCandless from my perspective, you quickly see that what he did wasn't even particularly daring, just stupid, tragic, and inconsiderate. First off, he spent very little time learning how to actually live in the wild. He arrived at the Stampede Trail without even a map of the area. If he [had] had a good map he could have walked out of his predicament [...] Essentially, Chris McCandless committed suicide.[31] Daredevils and other "risk takers" are not only getting themselves killed, but they're also getting search-and-rescue volunteers killed, and costing the state money that could be going to anything else.

I think it's funny I got downvoted for bring up a real problem. New Hampshire, for example, is one of the few states that can send you the bill. And good for them, because in just two years, they had over 260 stranded people and cost the state >$400,000. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/nh-bills-lost-hikers-for-cost-of-rescue/ https://www.cbsnews.com/news/nh-bills-lost-hikers-for-cost-o... Cost is a known issue. Additionally sometimes search and responders die trying to rescue them. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/hiker-rescuer-killed-at-washington-state-waterfall/ https://www.cbsnews.com/news/hiker-rescuer-killed-at-washing... That guy's kids don't have a father because someone decided to be an idiot while hiking. It's like hiking is some sort of extended daycare program where people assume they'll be saved by heroes if anything happens so they don't take even the most basic of provisions. People have romanticized nature so much they don't realize "nature" loves to kill people who aren't careful. Like that "into the wild" kid who went out with no real provisions or even a map... and died less than a couples miles from a ranger station with food, water, medicine, and radios. A simple map would have shown saved him. A 1 day seminar on basic survival techniques/facts would have saved him. Using his brain would have saved him. But he didn't get in touch with nature. He committed suicide. You don't play with a high voltage transformer unless you know what you're doing... and you don't hike into the middle of frozen hell unless you know what you're doing--unless you want to die. >Alaskan Park Ranger Peter Christian wrote: >When you consider McCandless from my perspective, you quickly see that what he did wasn't even particularly daring, just stupid, tragic, and inconsiderate. First off, he spent very little time learning how to actually live in the wild. He arrived at the Stampede Trail without even a map of the area. If he [had] had a good map he could have walked out of his predicament [...] Essentially, Chris McCandless committed suicide.[31] Daredevils and other "risk takers" are not only getting themselves killed, but they're also getting search-and-rescue volunteers killed, and costing the state money that could be going to anything else.