Thread: Trampers 'frightened' by unspecified proximity of hunters.

Exactly Tussock. Too many folks in the cities don't have enough 'real' things to do and so rely on the media for their experiences, which they take on as their own experiences. The media love 'news' and the more sensational they can make it the better. The result is that the city hermits who's only pseudo experience with anything is the over hyped negative rubbish from the media. This makes them even more paranoid so they become even more of a hermit.

There is nothing like getting into the real world for real experiences and to put the rest of the rubbish into perspective.

A lot of the issues come from man's adaptation to living in large populations. We used to seldom meet other groups and would judge there intents. In large populations like today there are too many encounters so we avoid eye contact. We lose the ability to judge intentions.

Our health and safety systems have a fair bit to do with things too. We have really moved away from risk management to trying for total risk elimination.