If a person is presented with information and makes a personal decision and is willing to accept the consequences, do you have a problem with that? Or do you believe that people in this country should be slaves of the State whose lives are dictated to them? Many people die every day from lung cancer from smoking despite all of the warnings, but that was their decision. Cue Devo’s Freedom of Choice, which several elected and unelected creeps tried to destroy three years ago.
Then don’t make threads like this lamenting the deaths of those who ignored the double red flags and riptide warnings. That’s my problem - idiots who think they know better and ignore the warnings of experts, then doing dumb stuff and putting the lives of rescuers at risk and utilizing rescue agency resources. When said idiots die we’re supposed to say aww how sad. Nuts to that - add them to the Darwin awards list.
Guess I’m testy on this as just last week where I live a rescuer drowned after saving two folks who were swimming in an area where it was clearly prohibited.
From the article “
I have watched while deputies, firefighters and lifeguards have risked their lives to save strangers. I have seen strangers die trying to save their children and loved ones, including two fathers on fathers day.'
He said some of his staff were abused and cursed for warning people of the dangers, and fining those who ignored the laws.
'These same heroes, who have risked it all to save others, have been cursed and given the finger, while trying to warn visitors of the life-threatening dangers,' Ford said.”
It’s those behaviors that piss me off - disrespecting rescuers and putting them at risk, putting their lives at risk, putting their innocent kids lives at risk all because some idiot thinks they can ignore the warnings and do whatever they want.
