It’s just a piece of sports equipment.
What seems to be a common misunderstanding is that animals are more “animalistic.” They aren’t.
I have to admit that I think we all have a tendency to think of animals as somehow “more animalistic.” There’s lots of reasons why this is wrong. For starters, the term animal is very generic. Most of the time animals are more like plants or insects, and that’s not because of their behavior or capabilities. It’s because the animal kingdom is so much bigger than our own.
When we think of animals, we think of them as dangerous. They can be dangerous in ways we cannot. For instance, many animals are deadly predators. I am talking about cats, dogs, raccoons, and many others. A cat can easily kill a human, but its not usually because of the animal. Its because its a predator. As a species, we are all predators. We are all predators to some degree.
That’s not to say we shouldn’t take care to avoid being a predator. We do that all the time. But our society, and our culture, are still relatively risk-averse. Even though a lot of people do want to be around animals, they still have a risk of becoming prey themselves. A lot of people will be fine with being eaten but they’ll still be prey.
This is called “the animal issue.” The problem with our culture is that people are so risk-averse that they’ll eat anything that moves. It’s the equivalent of saying, “I wouldn’t touch that. It’s probably the most disgusting thing in the world.
The good news is that I think we live in a society of risk-averse animals and risk-averse humans. Our culture is constantly telling us to be risk-averse. Our society is constantly telling us that we cant be risk-averse, that we should be risk-averse. Its a really bad combination. We have to take it to the extreme, but it has to be extreme in order to work.
This is why we really need to start working on developing a culture of more risk-averse animals. We have to start talking about it instead of just saying it. If we don’t, then we never will.
The reason that we dont talk about it as much as we would like to is because we would like to, which then leads to people not knowing what to talk about. It leads to people not knowing what to do. All of the people who have died in car crashes are not risk-averse. Its not that they just dont realize they are driving too fast, to the point of running a red light. If someone is risk-averse, they are also cautious and careful.
Even more than the average person, my wife and I are risk-averse. We dont talk about it because we are cautious and careful, and because we are risk-averse, we have to be careful and cautious. So we dont, which leads to many people not knowing what to say when someone asks us.