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Mauro's avatar

I think these stupid bureaucrats lie so much they become a little bit crazy themselves. They actually think if they just keep repeating something works, it will actually work. Good for us, this way they destroy themselves faster.

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The absurdity is beyond belief. I had been a volunteer firefighter with the NSW RFS for about 17 years, the last 7 years of which I was both secretary and treasurer of our little rural brigade due to the difficult task of attracting members. I'll leave you to guess why I am no longer a member.

About 10 years ago I was at a fire incident whereby I was assigned to patrol a freshly bulldozed firebreak with only one other person on the truck, that being the driver who was approaching 70 years of age and had already suffered one heart attack. When we got dry bogged on a particularly steep section of the firebreak in 45 degree heat and about 600 acres of burning hillside to our west, it occurred to me that if my assigned partner were to have a heart attack right there then I would be in deep do-do. However I never raised this incident as a safety concern because of the understanding that there will always be implicit risks in theses situations.

This brave new world of risk aversion is full of such contradictions.

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