• Spendrill@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    ‘We can’t shut the beach, think of all the small, independent traders that rely on that tourist income. There’s a knock on effect as well, their businesses paid taxes that keep public services open and pay for the police and life guards that keep everybody safe.’

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      The thing is, the Mayor in Jaws doesn’t realize he’s in Jaws.

      It’s a small town that runs on summer tourism money. Shutting down the beach on the holiday weekend would cause many businesses to fail.

      Yeah - some girl got killed by a shark. But that’s a tragic freak accident, not a pattern. One person dying to a shark attack is no reason to essentially shut down a city’s entire economy. It’s not like we shut down all the roads if a deer jumps in front of a car and causes a wreck.

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      If people stop swimming with sharks, they’ll lose the habits and reactions that keep them safe when a shark attacks.

      Therefore, they must keep swimming with sharks to avoid shark-attack debt and develop hybrid immunity to attack by losing a limb so they have a stronger reaction to the next attack.