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Originally Posted by MikeWaters
When I looked at all the able-bodied homeless in Seattle, begging for money, it occurred to me that if one of them wanted to wander into the woods to starve to death of his own accord, I probably ought not wring my hands over many months and years. People do stupid things all the time. It's just that people like Krakauer get to inject faux romanticism into the thing to make it seem important. It's not. It's stupidity.
Krakauer's book is so bad that it even embarrasses Anti-Mormons.
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This is pretty stupid, speaking of stupidity.
People wander into the woods for all sorts of reasons, and those reasons vary widely. It is actually interesting and heartbreaking why some people do it. Sometimes it's also inspiring.
He didn't intend on starving to death.
Your bias is making you stupid.
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