(05-24-2016, 07:08 AM)Odin Wrote: [ -> ] (05-24-2016, 01:04 AM)Kinser79 Wrote: [ -> ]Not everyone is Steve Irwin, most humans have enough sense to not go out of their way to piss off animals. For the record I'm glad he's dead. To bad he didn't manage to not reproduce, we could have used with less of that in the gene pool.
Jesus Christ, for all your horrific, disgusting statements, this is probably the worst.
Steve Irwin was a Reactive at his best. He took risks, but he knew where to stop. He studied crocodile behavior very well, and he knew how far he could go in teasing them. He knew that he could outrun them once he was on land. He would never have so teased a bear, Big Cat, hyena, or canid. Nice doggy? That's about the last animal that you want as an enemy, because there usually are multiple dogs. You can't outrun a dog.
I was doing Census work one day, and I came to a house around noon. The people weren't there, but four medium-sized dogs (I forget the breed, but let's say "Doberman" or "Rottweiler") were there. As I approached the door, the dogs charged the metal door. I wanted out of there before the latch broke. I got to the car and drove away. I did not run, because I well know the predatory instinct of a dog. Never run from a dog.
Four 80-pound Dobermans might as well be one 320-pound
tiger if they intend to hurt one, the message that they delivered by charging the door. Dogs really are borderline man-eaters, and all that keeps a very large leopard-sized dog from being a man-eater is its good behavior. All that keeps a pack of cocker spaniels from making a meal out of you is good behavior. Dogs are among the most fearless and aggressive creatures around. You behave yourself around a dog or get hurt badly. Breaking into a house through a dog door if the dog is there is about as dangerous as entering the turf of a
tiger which at the least has some fear of us.
Steve Irwin was very good at assessing risks, and if he quit getting away from the crocodiles by the margins that he got away by he was going to give up that part of his shtick. That is how Reactives with any wisdom operate. His death came as a freak accident. The sting of a sting ray is rarely fatal because it almost never strikes a vital organ doing irreversible damage, but this sting got to his heart. He was more likely to die in an airline crash or vehicle accident than of an animal attack of any kind. Stingrays have caused far fewer human deaths than have dogs.
I know of one Reactive who broke into a house through the
tiger door -- excuse me, the dog door. Mercifully for him the dog was away. But that stupid fellow was a doper, someone who due to his dope habit showed his incompetence at assessing real risks of his behaviors.
He stayed clear of venomous snakes and jellyfish. He avoided motorcycles which really are dangerous. He did not do rock climbing (a dangerous activity in itself, even without the venomous snakes that one might encounter). When he had the fatal encounter with the stingray he was with the Cousteau group, a very cautious group of explorers. Irwin may have had a close call with a crocodile and decided to give up encounters with those. He may have been losing his foot speed, as is typical of an athlete. Steve Irwin was very much an athlete as well as a biologist and showman. Athleticism declines in one's thirties, and he may have been adapting to that by becoming more of a biologist and less of a dare-devil.
...Kinser can be rhetorically cruel. Just look at his politics here and on the old T4T forums.