Lacking facts to base such an attitude on, how could it be other than faith based?
I live in the real world with real people, not an ideological abstract.
Btw, I like to think I've also recreated in bear country, either or both kids -- we spent so much time in the wilderness, but will never know.
I'd love having you live in my neighborhood and be happy to drop by on my walks for coffee and a chat. (I'd be a little more restrained in what I said to protect a valued relationship.) But the day you said our other friend missing from our chat had had no right to try to use lethal force to protect herself from the bear that attacked and killed her? I'd have a problem.
And, yes, of course I'm assuming you wouldn't really react like that; but you did say it. I'm no ideologue -- everything has to work in the real world for most people, and bears, has to be workable for most or I won't support it.
To this day, I'm flabbergasted by those who imagined they had a right to choose, nearly 2 years ago now, to keep the minimum wage OTHER, REAL people live on at $7.25 because $12 wasn't the $15 they wanted. Was that even real to them? I think of those still trying to live on less often.
Our thoughts come closer together when I change the bear situation to that and think, "Where do they get off thinking that they deserve to be exempt?" But also worse, playing political "god" with the lives of others?
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