Man killed in shark attack off Western Australia
(www.dw.com)
from MicroWave@lemmy.world to world@lemmy.world on 06 Jun 18:35
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from MicroWave@lemmy.world to world@lemmy.world on 06 Jun 18:35
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A diver has died after an attack by a suspected 4.5-meter shark near Michaelmas Island. It is the third fatal shark attack in Australia in three weeks.
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Guess how many sharks Australians kill each year.
Personally Im still at none, but I haven’t seen anyone else’s numbers.
What is this comment supposed to mean old mate deserved it?
they were probably bringing attention to the fact that most sharks don’t want to attack people at all and rarely do it and hoping for no retaliation
He did deserve it. The shark attacked him as he was swimming around killing other animals
Is the shark like Superman for fish?
The diver was spearfishing. Also, an Australian source, rather than a German one.
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-06-06/…/106768050
Spearfishing seems like stacking one risk on top of another.
He fuckin deserved it
Spear fishing, or any traditional fishing method, forr food, is about as ethical as it gets. It’s a pretty even field. You’re out of your element, and using muscle power, while exerting yourself, while running out of oxigen.
Trawling and other intensive methods are not.
Bow hunting large animals, especially boar, which can be dangerous as all fuck, is also fine by me. Shooting small game with fucking 12 gauge, is not.
Fine by you does not mean fine by the animal. It’s not “about as ethical as it gets”. That’s completely delusional. Exercising and holding your breath does not factor into the ethics of needless killing.
Killing plants is unethical.
sure sweetie
What? They’re alive. It’s been shown they communicate. They’re a LOT more sophisticated than people think.
I’m sure this is a belief you seriously hold with great conviction. It just happens to only come up when you’re confronted with the cruelty of killing and eating sentient animals
Just like you won’t, in any way whatsoever, entertain the idea that eating plants is unethical. Your convictions on the matter are so strong that you simply won’t consider that they, too, are living beings.
When did I state that plants aren’t alive? They are not sentient. That’s a different thing. Even if they were sentient, it wouldn’t change the fact that we need to eat plants to survive. We do not need to eat animals. And we cause fewer plant deaths by eating them directly, rather than indirectly through eating organisms of higher trophic levels.
My rejection of your argument based on its merits is not a failure to consider it.
How does a method being traditional make it more ethical? Aren’t more ethical methods of hunting about minimising agony of an animal when killed using all available technology? So a firearm shot would be more ethical than slow-to-kill arrow?
I consider your argument the more ethical one. If an animal is going to die, isn’t the most humane method the most ethical? However, I also see the other side, which is giving the animal the chance to kill the human first. It’s kinda twisted logic. If you’re going that route then the most humane method would be not kill them at all.
Oh man… you know what that means. Shark Party.
Context for those not in the know
Meanwhile, 2.700 people die DAILY from mosquito bites (from disease they transmit).
We desperately need to find a way to exterminate these wretched creatures from the face of the planet. If there was ever a reason to deliberately make something go extinct, this has got to be the one.
Mosquitoes are part of food chain. They causes harm to us, but making them extinct is not an option unless we know how to manage the gap in food chain it will leave behind.