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Trespass on SSSI sites

Mustard Sep 6, 2012 11:48:01

Replying to nigelswift

nigelswift wrote:

OK, you respect the reasons why the rules exist but don't adhere to them. Fine.

Nigel, please try and be reasonable. It's really not that radical a concept. Try and see that there are some shades between black and white. It's perfectly possible to respect rules, see the need for them, and still feel that they don't have to be adhered to with religious fervour.

How do you feel about people who've walked around the edge of the corn to get closer to the Devil's Arrows?

Evergreen Dazed Sep 6, 2012 11:55:57

Replying to Mustard

Mustard wrote:

How do you feel about people who've walked around the edge of the corn to get closer to the Devil's Arrows?

Or, indeed, people trespassing in order to take photos of the recent damage at Priddy?

Thats a particularly interesting one.

nigelswift Sep 6, 2012 12:06:31

Replying to Mustard

i am not being unreasonable. Nor unrealistic, I know people step off pathways etc but if the guardians of a place, in their wisdom, make a specific rule and 99.999% of people carefully keep to it and half a dozen people flout it and sneak in somewhere at night and publicly proclaim it is one of the rules they feel doesnt need to apply to THEM or to anyone else that feels the same way that's pretty unfortunate, to say the least. Its not going to get democracy in China or votes for women its just going to make them look like self-seekers and sends out a truly lousy message.

As for being grateful for such individual thinkers, I think not. Chinese students and women's campaigners yes, breakers of rules that they themselves support as well-founded - no.