Nature of the Man (R.I.P Steve Irwin)

Investor's Business Daily ^ | 5 September 2006 | Editorial staff

[Judy Jetsun]

Now pissant, who would not want to hug a anoconda..LOL...
Me a panda...

[dirtboy]

Best editorial yet on this subject, especially on Irwin's critics:

On Internet sites like Daily Kos, for instance, the local consensus was to condemn Irwin for taking chances, something almost as "bad" as soldiers who put their lives in danger for Iraq's freedom. Along with Irwin, soldiers, police and firefighters all take needless risks because nothing out there is worth risking one's life for.

The other scolds detested the fact that Irwin was entertaining and his exuberance brought nature to millions of the hoi polloi (including children who might be sparked to learn more about nature beyond TV.) Irwin's ability to make nature popular and profitable obviously challenged the gravity of their own expertise. "Voyeuristic," snarled survival expert Ray Mears, condemning Irwin. "Some things in nature should be left alone."

With insufferable attitudes like that, it's no wonder conservation often is a lifeless and dismal cause, the province of angry isolationists, and corollary environmentalists who can be even worse. ----------

As I have often told liberals, I am a conservationist, not a Luddite. Like hunters have done, Irwin also probably did more for conservation than some noble-savage coffehouse idiot living in a big city who poo-poos the notion of man interacting with nature instead of hiding from it like the twit does.

[dirtboy]

He was a fool - but an entertaining fool. Shame he killed himself so young.

Yeah, better he be killed in a car wreck than getting killed in an absolutely freak accident with a stingray - what, three people have been killed by stingrays over the last century in Australia, whereas how many people are killed by cars?

I have withheld judgement to this point. But the poo-poo-ers are full of shiite.

[Judy Jetsun]

Totally agree with you!
Steve felt like a true friend to most...Something profound he said was most people will stab ya in the back given half the chance, but animals will let ya know when you have pis**d them off...