4 ms·

I don't say I identify with him but I have some respect and even admiration for McCandless, because I think I understand his feelings from what I've read and wa

I don't say I identify with him but I have some respect and even admiration for McCandless, because I think I understand his feelings from what I've read and watched about him, but I don't have the same feeling for Treadwell though

toenail 2y ago
They were both ill-prepared and harmed their environment. Anybody who gets help for their mental health problems deserves more admiration.
- southernplaces7 2y ago
  To be fair to McCandles, who was generally extremely foolish in what he did too, at least his idiocy and lack of really basic preparation didn't get anyone else killed.
  - EdwardDiego 2y ago
    Yeah, but someone had to handle his corpse. I mean, SAR people can get kinda used to it, but it's still going to ruin your day a little.
    - qup 2y ago
      We should make it illegal to die
      - s1artibartfast 2y ago
        Civilized people walk into the incinerator alive.
        xsmasher 2y ago
        I'd rather take my chance at being renewed in carousel than be terminated as a runner.
    - 1234letshaveatw 2y ago
      someone is going to have to handle everyones
    - patrick451 2y ago
      Retrieving him was a choice. This attitude that we have to rescue everybody from the backcountry whether dead or alive is silly. We could just leave the fools out there. At the very least, then we wouldn't have to put up with all these arguments about what you should or shouldn't do in the backcountry because of the externalities incurred when SAR gets involved.
EdwardDiego 2y ago
Nah, McCandless deserves no respect or admiration at all. He was arrogant, and he died, and someone else had to drag his decomposed corpse out of the bus. At least he didn't get his girlfriend eaten by a bear I suppose.
- troyvit 2y ago
  > someone else had to drag his decomposed corpse out of the bus. That will happen with all of us probably, whether it's a bus, a bathtub, or a senior living apartment. When I read Into the Wild I had the same feelings that this arrogant idiot deserved to die. Now that I'm older and I can feel the heat death of me and everything I've touched I'm starting to second guess that feeling. We're all arrogant, ignorant, and selfish, and dying is going to most likely hurt no matter how it happens. Why not be a fool?

toenail 2y ago

They were both ill-prepared and harmed their environment. Anybody who gets help for their mental health problems deserves more admiration.

southernplaces7 2y ago
To be fair to McCandles, who was generally extremely foolish in what he did too, at least his idiocy and lack of really basic preparation didn't get anyone else killed.
- EdwardDiego 2y ago
  Yeah, but someone had to handle his corpse. I mean, SAR people can get kinda used to it, but it's still going to ruin your day a little.
  - qup 2y ago
    We should make it illegal to die
    - s1artibartfast 2y ago
      Civilized people walk into the incinerator alive.
      - xsmasher 2y ago
        I'd rather take my chance at being renewed in carousel than be terminated as a runner.
  - 1234letshaveatw 2y ago
    someone is going to have to handle everyones
  - patrick451 2y ago
    Retrieving him was a choice. This attitude that we have to rescue everybody from the backcountry whether dead or alive is silly. We could just leave the fools out there. At the very least, then we wouldn't have to put up with all these arguments about what you should or shouldn't do in the backcountry because of the externalities incurred when SAR gets involved.

EdwardDiego 2y ago

Nah, McCandless deserves no respect or admiration at all. He was arrogant, and he died, and someone else had to drag his decomposed corpse out of the bus. At least he didn't get his girlfriend eaten by a bear I suppose.

troyvit 2y ago
> someone else had to drag his decomposed corpse out of the bus. That will happen with all of us probably, whether it's a bus, a bathtub, or a senior living apartment. When I read Into the Wild I had the same feelings that this arrogant idiot deserved to die. Now that I'm older and I can feel the heat death of me and everything I've touched I'm starting to second guess that feeling. We're all arrogant, ignorant, and selfish, and dying is going to most likely hurt no matter how it happens. Why not be a fool?