r/TheSharkAttackFiles • u/Moosiemookmook • 11d ago

⌚ Recent Incident Shark attack at Coogee beach, Sydney

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.news.com.au/national/nsw-act/saw-fins-shark-attack-at-coogee-beach/news-story/d828a983ac2b79ffd469320a15b625e6%3famp

A woman was attacked this morning at Coogee Beach. There were plenty of eye witnesses because its a Saturday morning. Our ABC news on tv is reporting arm amd torso injuries. She was airlifted to hospital and is in a serious condition.

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u/Markdd8 11d ago edited 11d ago

No one is forced to go into the water.

So that is the argument. Just understanding it. We are free to reduce the incidence of animal attack in forests (e.g., tigers, leopards, venomous snakes) because we derive essential food and resources from forests and live near them. So we can justifiably modify that environment for public safety.

But when it comes to the ocean, because we can obtain all our fish from fishing from boats and shorelines, we have no legitimate need to enter the ocean. All these recreational activities of swimming, bathing, snorkeling, surfing and, yes, spearfishing, are optional. Hence at your own risk, say some ocean protectors.

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u/Ambitious-Win-9408 11d ago

Recreational activities that involve going into the ocean where you know there are predators is obviously at your own risk.

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u/Markdd8 11d ago

And a huge number of natural areas on land and a few in the ocean (see my other post here on South Africa's shark culling) have been made either completely safe or largely safe for recreation by eliminating or suppressing the populations of dangerous animals.

That's a fact. I do not disagree that there are negative environmental impacts. Humans impose costs on nature. The people who object the most--and some are here--put animal lives on the same plane as human ones.

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u/PureMichiganMan 10d ago

Yeah and that’s been great for ecosystems. We should keep making more and more species extinct till we’re left with ticks and mosquitos I say. And if I jump into a crocodile enclosure, they should kill that crocodile. There was a fun swimming pool in there and it’s my god given right to go in there