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PM Ardern, who has one to many “r”s in her name surely, says “questions must be asked”.
Why did it not occur to anyone to ask questions earlier about the practice of admitting tourists to a known active volcano site with no escape routes, in a difficult location for emergency services to reach? I understand the island is privately owned. Were the owners charging money to admit people to this death trap?
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It has long seemed to me that ‘elf and safety culture is less developed in the Antipodes. Perhaps it’s time they fixed that, given that by “‘elf and safety culture” I am of course using the standard OGR Tendency gammoneer w**kspeak for the legal principle that if you plan to entice people onto your land or premises for the purpose of making money out of them, whether as customers or as employees, you don’t do so unless reasonable consideration has been given to their safety or you pay the consequences.
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Leaving aside fault it’s amazing what people get up to without seeming to spot the obvious danger. I mean, active volcanos...
Skiing is another one. Put two bits of wood on your feet and hurl yourself off an Alp, pissed, having spent the prior 51 weeks sat on your arse in the office. Thousands of deaths and serious injury a year.
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In New Zealand you can combine the two by skiing on a volcano
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Well off twots weigh up the risk of death against wanting to show off to their friends about where they went on holiday and get their backsides handed to them. No sympathy. No empathy.
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the last two sentences are just self-description right?
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NZ has a no fault state backed compensation scheme for personal injury so operators running extreme sports and presumably trips to dangerous active volcanoes don't need to worry about hefty public liability insurance. If they had to fork out for that they might be more cautious about risk?
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I can’t think of any system better designed to incentivise death
how on earth does this country have a reputation as progressive?
ban these idiots
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No idea about NZ but in Aus the elf and safety culture is worse than it is in the UK. You can’t go to any kind of place of natural beauty higher than a footstool without it being metal guard-ed off with 7 million signs warning you about not being a fvcking idiot
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Australian culture now totally feminised by brainwashed graduate women
Ocker men allowed out for 2 hours a week to boot a ball around to convince themselves they are still men, but otherwise totally under the thumb
#orwellwinning
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bernstein
have u ever considered being less of a cock
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This is tongue in cheek, right? Health and safety might have a bit of a role in making sure your office computer screen does not explode in your face or that a blind forklift truck operator does not run you over in the company warehouse.
But it can't cover circumstances like this. Well, unless we ban half the sports we play, walking anywhere off designated paths in the countryside (lest you fall into a river and drown or fall of a cliff) and living in any place on earth where there is a risk of volcano eruptions, earthquakes, hurricanes, tsunamis...
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It is definitely the case that tourism to small islands comprised entirely of currently-active, could-explode-any-minute volcanoes should be completely banned.
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