> But I'm not sure in this case what the resentment is about. I believe these are all of the relevant statements from the article, in the order in which they a

> But I'm not sure in this case what the resentment is about. I believe these are all of the relevant statements from the article, in the order in which they appear: > And yet, some Bay swimmers refuse to wear these potentially lifesaving devices because they consider them a form of cheating. > Tom Linthicum, a swimmer called “Reptile,” has made the mile-and-a-quarter water trek from Alcatraz to San Francisco more than 200 times, but never in a wetsuit. With a wetsuit, he says, “you’re not really enjoying the cold.” > “The land brain wants to go home, take a nap, forget about it,” he says. During times like this, he instead channels his “reptile brain,” which he believes to be an evolutionary vestige. “The reptile brain just comes out and says, ‘enjoy the water; enjoy the cold,’ ” he says. “Our ancestors may never have had a warm shower in their entire life.” The first one isn't really backed up from what I could see. Regardless, it seems people are stealing things and throwing them away or causing damage to them[0] because they have a personal preference to not use those things. Suddenly I'm completely on the side of the outraged wetsuiters. [0] > Over the years, in actual cold cases, wetsuits have mysteriously vanished from the changing room ... Later, the suits turned up in garbage cans or, in one case, hanging outdoors from a nail on the second floor of the building