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To: Eva
There is no reason to cause the inevitable rescuers to be subjected to the rigors, expense and risk of the search.

Except the that rescuers are climbers themselves. You've got to be an experienced mountaineer/climber to join any rescue team, and of course *willing* to put yourself at risk.

By your logic you should also be mad at the rescuers for taking the risk of rescuing.

As for the expense, rescue is available to anyone encountering trouble in the outdoors, from the most risk-taking mountaineer to the most hapless and inexperienced hiker. Should we just let them all die?

35 posted on 12/13/2006 9:19:31 AM PST by angkor ("Bush needs to decide that the bad guys are going to die" Podhoretz, NY Post, 12/5/06)
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To: angkor

No, we should not, cannot, let them die, but their needs to be some sanity applied to the risk. I don't think that the rescuers bear the expense of this type of rescue, and it happens entirely too often.


38 posted on 12/13/2006 9:32:22 AM PST by Eva
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