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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.my point was that there have been on occasion sharks that have, it appears, targetted humans. i didn't say all sharks did this, and i didn't say that the might of ignored other potential food sources and i didn't suggest that they have some kind of personal vendetta or 'hatred' for humans.
yes if u are swimming in the water then u have to accept that other things live there. i never disagreed with that point. but i did say that if a shark is in an area and humans are repeatedly being attacked then perhaps something should be done.
if you stand in the middle of the road and get hit - its your fault.
if you swim in shark infested waters and get eaten - its your fault.
how do you suppose not swimming in shark infested waters is 'being a killjoy and worrying unnecessarily'???
you are arguing a ridiculous point that no-one else agrees with - try actually reading some of the responses properly
I cannot be bothered to keep talking about this - you are wrong and everyone else on here is right - just accept it!
all i've ever said is that if an animal becomes a greater risk than normal then perhaps something should be done about them. i've never once said anything about revenge.
if a dog savages a child why is that dog is destroyed? because it has been supposedly domesticated?
it appears to me that is impossible for anyone to have a balanced opinion as if u can see both sides u get shouted down! i have said that u have to accept the risks but my point if the danger becomes greater than that of just being in that area then i don't see anything wrong with dealing with the problem. i have not said mass culls of animals should be carried out.
and joko by ure reasoning if i'm crossing a road and i get hit by a car its my fault, in the same way that if i'm swimming in the ocean and i get eaten by a shark its my fault? and i've never said not swimming in shark infested waters mad someone boring!
try re-reading your own posts and remember what you said.
yes, if you walk in front of a car its your own fault - be more careful. you know its dangerous, and if you are hit it will hurt you more than the car, so don't step into the road until its clear - simple! remember your green cross code!
if the car mounts the pavement or you are thrown into the road then no its not your fault.
you then said my life is boring if i don't do things, through being afraid of getting hurt.
you said ' they specifically target humans' why would they do that - other than for revenge? if you specifically target someone to do them harm - there must be a reason! what possible reason could sharks have?
you said 'something must be done' i.e kill rogue sharks. all sharks could be seen as rogue, and all are dangerous - they sure aren't tame!' so therefore you said kill all sharks.
you are not seeing both sides, you are viewing sharks as though they are from the films 'jaws' - that was fiction. sharks aren't like that - they are not evil, twisted killing machines, whose sole aim is to hurt everything they see just for the hell of it, and won't stop until you are dead - they kill because they are hungry and you happen to be there.
think about what your words actually "say" to people, not just what they spell out!
this is getting deeply tedious
yeah this is tedious.
i didn't say "walk in front of a car" i said "cross the road", as in wanting to get to the other side thinking that it is clear and then being hit by a car. i didn't say leap in front of a moving vehicle to see what happens, as in i'm not saying "ooohhh lets go in the sea, splash about a bit n see if we can get a shark to attack us!" you go in the sea for a swim, and my point is if u always go, "oooh not sure i'll go for a swim i might get eaten today" the ure not going to do a hell of a lot.
why would sharks have to be motivated by revenge to attack humans repeatedly? it may just choose to ignore other food sources to attack people instead.
by 'rogue' sharks i'm not talking about sharks in general i'm talking about sharks that have become a specific danger to humans as opposed to a general danger of going in the ocean.
and i am not basing my arguements on having watched Jaws. my point was that some sharks, not all sharks ever born, have in history repeatedly attacked humans.
I'm sure there are so many that would agree with what you wrote upon opening this posting Robert G, I am definately one of them, and can see that while there will be people devided about this issue, as controvercial as it is, I believe we, as the people of Australia, should ackwoledge that while we continue to kill the sharks that have harmed or killed humans in our waters, we cannot continue to kill all such skarks and that would lead to the death of, on average, 120,000 sharks a year alone.
I feel that, while the upmost sympathy is given to shark attack victims, animal behaviour has a tandancy to change when we humans get involved and approach, or live alongside animals in their natural habitat. And we cannot blame the animals for such reactions to our presence in their natural home.
There was a case of Chimpanzees and Gorillas, along a line of run sanctuaries in Tanzania, Africa, who, having known human contact, in the form of food being given out or just living alongside us and witnessing our way of life and living, that these apes started to attack human children and their own babies because of a growing instinct to be viscious and, totally un-natrually, to be meat-eaters.
Now as much as this hasn't got anything to do with the sharks as such, it's just a great example of how we can change animal behaviour and while some people are saying why can't we swim in safe waters without sharks trying to harm us, we have to ask ourselves if we haven't encouraged them to come perhaps out of the deeper water; out of their natural habitat to the extent where our presence has changed their behaviour and we are encouraging them come further inland and allowing this harmful and viscious behaviour from them.
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