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Phill Dixon @philldixon.bsky.social

Where it all goes to ratshit is false 'knowledge', expediency, inhibition or peer pressure. Ask most people if drunk driving is a terrible idea. Ask again after they've had a drink, with their mates and need to get home and voila some will say it is ok just this once. I always tell the story of a

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Phill Dixon @philldixon.bsky.social

Indian police officer I met while filming wildlife. He had been told a special 'snake stone' prevented cobra venom working. He handled dozens of deadly cobras ad got bit once and thought the stone saved him. He told all the other officers and they bought them too. It was a dry bite. He was dead

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Phill Dixon @philldixon.bsky.social

A few weeks later from a true bite but happily sat in the house apparently rubbing his wound with a tatty bit of false promise from a street hawker. Prior to that 'cure' he would have been straight to hospital and not as gung-ho about deady cobras. But I realise this is your job so not trying to

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Phill Dixon @philldixon.bsky.social

Say you are wrong just that it is more nuanced than humans are blanket crap at it. We'd be extinct as a species if we were

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