subasurf said...kiterboy said..
Ah, so by that logic, we may as well stop all the road safety campaigns and black spot projects.
....or maybe by his logic we should have water safety campaigns to inform people of the risks that they must accept if they want to enter a wild and uncontrolled environment such as the frickin ocean.
We need to do a cull on rips too. Let's build rock groynes every 15 metres to stop the coastal currents from sweeping people away. Sure, it'll **** up the environment, but who cares right?
Crikey, I can't believe the diatribe you anti cullers sprout.
I mean, if you're against a cull, that's enough of a statement to make, and if you have a solution then state your line, stop making these ridiculous comparisons.
As humans it is our nature to try and control those things which pose a risk to us, those things that act out side of our own personal sphere of influence.
Rips kill because people are perhaps not educated enough, but that is something within our own personal sphere of influence, if you don't educate yourself about the risk and you get taken by a rip, then that is your own personal responsibility.
Road fatalities are less of a concern to us, in relation to shark attacks for example, because we practice safe driving for the most part, that is within our personal sphere of influence, what we don't have control over with driving is what other people are doing on the roads, that is why we have laws against mobile phone use, drink driving etc and education campaigns, because we are trying to control a situation which is outside of the individual's personal sphere of influence.
Bushfires, we are educated look after our properties and laws are put in place for boundary clearing etc, if you are caught in a bushfire, that falls within your personal sphere of influence.
Sharks, like driving, fall within and outside of our own personal sphere of influence, that is why we try to minimize our own controllable risk and also try to put measures in place to minimize the risk component that we can't control.
To suggest that people stay out of the water completely is utter nonsense and makes anyone who suggests that as a solution look like an utter fool.
It just isn't viable.
At all.
SO, we try to minimize the risk of shark attack, there are many ways to do this, but if no viable solution is presented that avoids a cull and such measures, then that is what is going to happen like it or not.
So if you can't put together a viable, structured and comprehensive alternative to the measures put forward by Barney and his cronies, then you're just going to have to suck it up or gather enough public support to stop any measure being put in place and because of that having all further deaths on your hands.
So the message is, stop making ridiculous comparisons and put up, contribute to finding a better solution, or shut up.
