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Not all bears are like that.

Because nature is cute and fluffy.

...ever since they took nature shows off television. I grew up watching predator / prey encounters by animals. Never had the urge to approach a bear.

That's got to be the Darwin award of the week.

I like watching videos of people playing with charismatic megafauna. So naturally I see videos like this


Why I don’t go in with the brown bears! https://www.youtube.com/shorts/3Jxb4X9biyU

(It is a happy video, he doesn't fuck around and doesn't find out :-)

Thus I know that you only get to play with bears that you have hand reared from cubs. It also shapes my perception of humans. I end up thinking that every-one who would want to take a selfie with a bear would know this.

Which gets me thinking about René Girard and his theory of memetic desire. We don't have our own desires, we copy what others desire, even though they don't have the own authentic desires and are themselves copying the desires of others... René Girard takes this too far, and makes it a theory of everything.

I guess that memetic desire works as an explanation here. Daft tourist "wants" a selfie with a bear. How come they don't know the danger? They have copied what they "want" from other people. And it is a superficial copying that doesn't include copying the knowledge of the dangers.

Well, she lived:

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/british-tourist-bear-romania-attacked-selfie-b2534523.html

At least she got a cool picture. Hope it was worth it!

Ahahahaha

Its like those yuppie retards who try and get beside of buffalo and get gored and stomped. I love it. I want them to swim towards sharks and start splashing. Or jump on an alligators back because they saw some dude on tv do it. This shit is better than anything on tv or at the movies.

"I tought I taw a puddy tat" (falls off chair dying laughing)

Nobody whose life mattered died that day.

See thats what you get with useless warning labels, the abilty to sue for millions in bullshit suits and with "trust and safety"councils.

No worries everyone. This is how bears treat each other.