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Re: [josephgdawson] Looking for anyone who's had an Alien fail in the wild:
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chilli
Jun 30, 2009, 6:36 PM
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josephgdawson wrote: Testing and breaking Aliens and releasing the information to the public is a service to the climbing community. A concerted effort to get the government involved could very well boomerang and do great damage to the climbing community in the long run...
i gotta agree a bit here. or at least say that i'm worried. maybe it's because i'm a bit ignorant about things like this, but it seems to me that when it comes to the consequences of government involvement and subsequent litigation in other arenas of recreational activity a can of worms was opened that was damaging at best. i hope this is just a flash in the pan situation and not a harbinger.
aric, i've always appreciated your factual presentation and thorough threads in the lab and they've certainly affected my position on aliens; but i must admit i too am a bit concerned about the possible loss of objectivity as things proceed. edit to add clarification: i think it's probably good that someone took initiative to really test aliens and bring it to the attention of the appropriate authorities, but i just have to hope this doesn't backfire
so i guess it begs the question, where do things go from here?
gov't may take some action against CCH? - fine, they screwed themselves with QC anyway. but does that open the door to other legal action? for the sake of our community, i hope not.
(This post was edited by chilli on Jun 30, 2009, 6:47 PM)
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