You need to be paying outrageous taxes for access to public property for your childish ego stroking exercises in stupidity. Why do you climb? Because it's there is not a good enough answer. How is the collective benefiting from your waste of time scaling rocks? How much public money and lives are wasted rescuing clowns out to conquer inanimate objects like Mt. Hood, Long's Peak, Half Dome or Rainier? How many lives are effected when you guys get lost and better people than you have to risk their lives to babysit you, who pays the bill? Your equipment needs to be increased in taxation 1000 percent for the good of the people........ how else will your waste of time be paid for?
How much litter have you left on the walls of your favorite rocks? The new pitons, if left in the wall, are litter......... you aren't leaving nature the way you found it. Go clean it up.
Testy, testy. I climb because its fun, why do you do what you do? Your lack of understanding of what it means to be a anarcho- or socialist democracist blinds you. It isn't a slave society, in fact, quite the opposite. But you'd have to learn about it from books first, and not just from righwing blogs and Fox News. I pay for rescue insurance for just such occasions, which there haven't been any, but you never know. I think the amount of money generated by climbers driving, flying, and visiting places like National Parks and tourist towns is far greater than the cost of saving them when they get in over their heads. By the way, I work. I wouldn't mind paying higher taxes for a system similar France or Canada's system of social health care, college education, vacation time, social security, retirement benefits, lower crime, far less widespread poverty, parental benefits, etc. I could still enjoy my pasttime, just like anyone else in social-democratic nations. I don't harbor some unrealistic notion that people won't work because there isn't any incentive to work, nor that someday I'll be rich. My life doesn't revolve around money, which means nothing, but around experiences and love, which mean everything.
By the way, I use what is known as "clean" climbing gear. I don't use pitons or anything else, nor do I even use chalk. I leave Nature the way I found it and I was certified as a Leave No Trace trainer to teach others how to minimize their impact on mountain ecology. I am far from similar to rednecks who drive ATVs and trucks on fragile alpine tundra, fire weapons and fireworks at rocks and trees, throw their beer bottles and cans wherever, leave trash at their campsites, and start huge bonfires.
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