Tom_in_CA
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In the discussion of how rules against md'ing come into existence : At SOME point when the pen & ink came together to pen the rule, that required that rule-writer (legislator, or park board committee, or ranger office, etc...) to : Weigh the data involved in the decision that they were about to make. Right ?
Regarding the notion that public-opinion is stacked against md'rs: Ie.: the notion that powers-that-be are trigger happy to make rules against us. Because they have a poor-impression of the ethics of some past md'rs . And that this "poor-impression" lurks in theirs & everyone's mind:
I am going to suggest that this is just the trick, that we md'rs will be easily prone to think, because of what's known in psychology as "projection". That is where : If you are highly into something, you tend to think that others, around you, are also equally intrigued, notice it, etc...
So, to use a hobby as an example, if you are very much into birdwatching, you might therefore be watching lots of youtube birdwatching videos. And you might "project" that others randomly in-the-public are also randomly tuning into those same videos. And if an incorrect bird identification was on that video, then you moan and groan at the wrong ID mistake. Right ? And you think that.... certainly .... that's the next day's gossip at the water cooler at various random offices, eh ?
And you'd be participating in birdwatching forum discussion boards, and you'd notice any newspaper article that had to do with birdwatching. Why ? Because that's your hobby. So if there were a newspaper article out there that told of a birdwatcher who trespassed to get a better birdwatching spot, you'd moan and groan that he is "giving our hobby a bad name" (which, yes, would be true). Then you'd "project" that your friends, neighbors, and the general public had also read that clipping, and thus : Are likewise moaning and groaning at that clipping. And hence : Looking with disdain on birdwatchers.
When the truth actually is : They could care less about birdwatchers. They DON'T watch those youtube videos. They DON'T read birdwatcher internet forums. They DIDN'T see that random clipping in the newspaper last year. And thus they DON'T have a mistrust (nor could care-less) about birdwatchers.
But to the hardcore birdwatcher, they "project" that all those things are true. So too is it with all of us md'rs: We love md'ing. So it's easy for us to amplify and project and assume that others are seeing and registering the same things that we are seeing and registering. But .... in the same fashion that you could "care less" about birdwatching, SO TOO does the non-md'r tend to "care less" about md'ing.
Regarding the notion that public-opinion is stacked against md'rs: Ie.: the notion that powers-that-be are trigger happy to make rules against us. Because they have a poor-impression of the ethics of some past md'rs . And that this "poor-impression" lurks in theirs & everyone's mind:
I am going to suggest that this is just the trick, that we md'rs will be easily prone to think, because of what's known in psychology as "projection". That is where : If you are highly into something, you tend to think that others, around you, are also equally intrigued, notice it, etc...
So, to use a hobby as an example, if you are very much into birdwatching, you might therefore be watching lots of youtube birdwatching videos. And you might "project" that others randomly in-the-public are also randomly tuning into those same videos. And if an incorrect bird identification was on that video, then you moan and groan at the wrong ID mistake. Right ? And you think that.... certainly .... that's the next day's gossip at the water cooler at various random offices, eh ?
And you'd be participating in birdwatching forum discussion boards, and you'd notice any newspaper article that had to do with birdwatching. Why ? Because that's your hobby. So if there were a newspaper article out there that told of a birdwatcher who trespassed to get a better birdwatching spot, you'd moan and groan that he is "giving our hobby a bad name" (which, yes, would be true). Then you'd "project" that your friends, neighbors, and the general public had also read that clipping, and thus : Are likewise moaning and groaning at that clipping. And hence : Looking with disdain on birdwatchers.
When the truth actually is : They could care less about birdwatchers. They DON'T watch those youtube videos. They DON'T read birdwatcher internet forums. They DIDN'T see that random clipping in the newspaper last year. And thus they DON'T have a mistrust (nor could care-less) about birdwatchers.
But to the hardcore birdwatcher, they "project" that all those things are true. So too is it with all of us md'rs: We love md'ing. So it's easy for us to amplify and project and assume that others are seeing and registering the same things that we are seeing and registering. But .... in the same fashion that you could "care less" about birdwatching, SO TOO does the non-md'r tend to "care less" about md'ing.