In reply to Mr Lopez:
> Oh right, sorry. I thought we were talking..
Oh right sorry, I thought we were talking like two grown-ups.
Your links are valid and conclusive, whereas my link to the RNLI's official statement is just "personal opinions various individuals hold on the matter" and anyway doesn't really count because you are "acquainted with" RNLI staff and know better. Riiiiiight.
For the benefit of the thread (not you Mr Lopez, I've been trying to cut down on the pointless bickering on here so if you're going to be weirdly passive-aggressive about this I think we're done) - let me just try to make it clear what I'm saying here..
Personally I don't have a problem with anyone climbing, surfing, paddling or whatever as long as they're not a problem for anyone else. The trouble, as the surfer writing the article Mr Lopez linked to above, is that people don't think they're going to be a problem until they are one.
The further problem for climbers is that in many places we are reliant on good will for access and in the current atmosphere of fervid moral panic and knee-jerk self-righteous condemnation it would be all too easy to destroy that good will.
Some dickhead breaking his leg on Dartmoor could easily derail access negotiations in Cumbria, a mountain rescue in North Wales could lose us a crag in Northumberland. So on behalf of climbers everywhere who have something to lose if just one individual makes us all look like selfish dickheads some time this week - nobody is really desperate to climb, we merely want to, so please, pretty please, for the time being can we all just f*cking not?
Post edited at 15:38