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by sinker 6y ago
So long as YouTube issues bans to users that are as egregiously racist as klan members I see no problem. I don't know any of these people, but if they are undeniably white supremacists, then it's a hard sell to dispute this indivi
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by sinker 6y ago
Isn't this just speculation? He gave out enough good reasons for his identity to not be known, the biggest is that he works as a professional psychiatrist with clients of wide ranging political stances. He's also, I suspect (I don
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by sinker 6y ago
Neither did I. He seemed quite patient explaining everything. Maybe it's his brother?
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by sinker 6y ago
> surviving 113 days in the wilderness isn't that great of a feat. if you were prepared, and had done a bare minimum of research and planning beforehand, you could manage not to die. Sorry but this just isn't true. There's
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by sinker 6y ago
That's not the reality of it. You can easily get lost even day hiking maintained trails. When you're cutting through brush, have no familiar landmarks things are different. Being lost is a combination of not knowing your location
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by sinker 6y ago
The question isn't what he should or shouldn't have done. That part is crystal clear. The question is why do people feel entitled to moral indignation on account of someone hiking out alone into the wilderness. The arguments so fa
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by sinker 6y ago
This is overstated and someone else addressed it further down. SAR work is slow, methodical, done in coordinated groups with medical, communication, and navigation technology. I'm not disputing that SAR workers are useful and necessary
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by sinker 6y ago
I'm not talking about the people in Alaska. I'm talking about commentators on HN. Scroll down a bit further and you'll find no end of it.
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by sinker 6y ago
My feeling was that he preferred not to think about it, that the careful, fastidious planning of the trip, that nearly any reasonable person would commit to, would detract from the experience. He was naive, but I think he also willfully ent
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by sinker 6y ago
What are you on? 20km on foot is a great distance, especially when you're unsure of where you are. And 20km in area is a massive amount of space. When you don't know which direction to go, even a mile is daunting.
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by sinker 6y ago
McCandless was explicitly escaping society. He had already vacated his family, friends, home, money, his vehicle. At this point he's a major outlier in terms of being a member of society.
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by sinker 6y ago
Who is the party that "lets" him climb mountains?
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by sinker 6y ago
Isn't it far more self centered to criticize a person's own personal choices from a time period of over two decades ago when they were in their early twenties, had almost no money, friends, or place to call home, escaping an abusi
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by sinker 6y ago
He went out there, blindly, but with every intention to live. He also survived for over three months before succumbing to poisonous berries. Some of these comments would suggest that he intentionally went into the wild just to die. For your
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by sinker 6y ago
No one said you can't criticize him. I wouldn't go out there alone without a sure way out. But the smug, self-righteous predictable knee jerk condemnation from many people I would suspect barely venture outside is, as always predi
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by sinker 6y ago
You're contending the weakest part of my argument. I'm not making a comparison of the climbing skill of Honnold. The comparison is in that both climbing and wilderness exploration are individualistic events where the consequences
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by sinker 6y ago
> your implication that a person walking off into the woods leads to no additional demands on others I don't deny that dying out alone in the wilderness does end up having a cost to others. I don't agree that the potential cost
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by sinker 6y ago
People put up the same comments about Alex Honnold when the Free Solo documentary made the front page of HN. That he was an irresponsible jerk who lived only for himself. Ultimately, the individual pays the greatest price. There is a differ
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by sinker 6y ago
I don't think there's a consensus to be reached. Part of why this story gets attention so frequently is because there's approximately two camps with points that aren't even contradictory logically, but are contradictory
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by sinker 6y ago
Isn't it also self-centered to feel entitled to curtail another person's freedom because of your limited sensibilities?
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by sinker 6y ago
Wilderness is a special designation, different from public lands, national forest, state parks. It's one of the last places in the US where you can be close to being free. Public lands often border private property. National forests ha
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by sinker 6y ago
Heading out into the wilderness for months at a time alone is an extreme event. So is flying in a wingsuit, or downhill skiing in a remote location full or rocks, or free soloing a difficult mountain. One one hand, you can say, "Think
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by sinker 6y ago
That would be a valid point if McCandless had made a pact with rangers that if he were come into serious trouble, they should rescue him immediately. Of course, he made no pact. He went out alone, died alone and his body was found incidenta
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by sinker 6y ago
This is a nonsense reply that doesn't address what I actually said.
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by sinker 6y ago
The romanticization is in the portrayal not the reality of it. Without Jon Krakauer, no one would know McCandless' name or story, because McCandless wasn't out to glorify himself or bring fame, money, etc. to himself. He really wa
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by sinker 6y ago
This response comes up every time, but it seems backwards to me and comes off more as rationalization for smugness than a legitimate point, something along the lines of, "Will someone think of the children?" Yes, it would be bette
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by sinker 6y ago
Am I in the minority in thinking that if someone wants to go out into the wilderness with little or no preparation for months at a time, that it's no one else's business? McCandless didn't ask for a book to be written about h
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by sinker 6y ago
Who's "we" in this case? Not everyone is on board with the new left who condemn at whim well meaning people who don't follow the temperamental and shallow whims of "wokeness." Free speech and thought are oppres
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by sinker 6y ago
Hi Matthias, fellow woodworker here who shares a love of toolmaking and problem solving. Have you ever felt constrained by your selection of tools? It appears to me you rely mostly on woodworking tools for your projects. In my own experienc
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by sinker 6y ago
Anyone know why this is flagged?

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