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To: BenLurkin

Very, very, odd.

It’s seems like they’re criminalizing personal responsibility....all because it was “decided” he was the more experienced climber? Even though she was no novice? Her judgement to not continue is of no relevance?

“Rescuers said it wasn’t an emergency call”...then why the call?

“The defence said that she told Thomas P to go to get help” - how do they know this?

So, in an emergency situation, if you ‘only’ make sure you survive, you’re guilty of a crime if somebody else doesn’t make it?

This seems bizarrely subjective.


5 posted on 02/20/2026 7:14:24 AM PST by fuzzylogic (welfare state = sharing of poor moral choices among everybody)
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To: fuzzylogic
That was exactly Reinhold Messner's take in Die Welt yesterday: mountain climbing is inherently dangerous but people don't take the risks seriously, especially a winter climb. His comment was they think it's just tourism.

They were both irresponsible. And you can be sure if she had made it down and he didn't, there would have been no indictment. The burden of responsibility still lies with men, despite all the feminist BS.

13 posted on 02/20/2026 7:59:59 AM PST by pierrem15 ("Massacrez-les, car le seigneur connait les siens" )
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