Outside:
No one has ever been killed by a selfie. A lot of people have been killed by stupid behavior. No beautiful destination has ever been ruined by an Instagram post. A lot of beautiful places have been ruined by irresponsible assholes. When it comes to social media’s impact on the outdoors, all of us are getting mad about the wrong thing. And that anger is one of the reasons why we have a problem.
I don’t know if it was the poppies in California, or the tourists who died in the Grand Canyon, or the guy who fell off a cliff in Yosemite National Park, but it seems as if the social-media outrage cycle has come full circle. Now, rather than being mad at a dentist who shot a lion or a zoo that killed a gorilla, everyone is outraged at social media itself.
I love this take on these “selfie death” stories.
This comes under the heading of asinine quibbling though.
Yes. Selfies have directly established a culture where dumb people do specifically new dumb, sometimes dangerous things at popular sites.
The literalist argument here is disingenuous. There is also a zero-sum fallacy tossed in, for good measure.
I see nothing wrong with a self-centered a-hole dying because of their own stupidity. The only tragedy is when the people drive their car over the flowers.
Should we be mad at the drug, the addict, or the addiction itself?