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[pct-l] Scary bear story & not hanging food



A little story....

Lets say there's a meadow of really pretty flowers up in the Sierras.  There's a rule that says nobody can pick the flowers because the flowers almost were wiped out in the area because everybody was picking them.  Nonetheless, there are thousands of nasty tourists who come in RV's (driving 15 MPH below the speed limit on mountain passes) and pick the flowers each of them saying "Oh, it won't hurt to pick just one."  

Then there are a small, dedicated group of nature lovers who love the outdoors.  They trek trough the moutains, enduring great hardship in order to see wonderful things the tourists in the RV's are too lazy to go and see.  They come upon the lovely flower meadow and say "Oh, it won't hurt to pick just one.  I can really appreciate it more than those lazy ass RVers.  So wise in the ways of the mountains, I can even do it undetected: stealth picking."

The meadow eventually dies.  In the end, who's really to blame?