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In Arizona snakebites happen on average to 50+, not really a demographic known to fuck with snakes. Snake shot should definitely not be carried in rattlesnake

• lupusreal 3y ago
  Most of them are men with old fashioned attitudes towards snakes who aren't as young and spry as they used to be, who fuck with the snakes and get rewarded with a bite. Rattlesnakes are perhaps the most courteous of all venomous snakes; they are named for their instinctual habit of making a lot of noise to warn you away. Unfortunately their rattling often gets them killed by ignorant people (particularly those old people) and so some populations of rattlesnakes are now less inclined to rattle. This puts humans at greater risk, so particularly in the case of rattlesnakes you should leave them alone. If you step on one that didn't rattle and you kill it after getting bitten then I could forgive you, but killing any random rattlesnake you happen across is an asshole move.
  • beaeglebeached 3y ago
    I don't care about ethics nor being an asshole. Curious what remaining methods of shame are incoming.
    • lupusreal 3y ago
      No further need, you've done my work and neatly discredited yourself and the premise of needlessly killing snakes.
      • beaeglebeached 3y ago
        An ad hominem, even against myself, would be fallacious when used to discredit factual statements. You're also inventing a strawman of 'needless' killing. In any case I've seen small children playing in places I 'formerly' saw a snake, and I'm willing to take all the 'discredit' in the world to not live with the guilt of finding out they were bit not long after I encountered the venomous snake. I don't give a shit about some snake off the beaten path far from where the vulnerable roam, and indeed I leave those alone.