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Originally Posted by The Yen Man
To be honest, I can't even agree with you on that one. Like I mentioned earlier, "no swimming" takes on a totally different connotation than "stay away from the water". The boy wasn't swimming, so they didn't ignore the signs.
If I'm at that resort, I expect to be safe, and any dangers to be CLEARLY pointed out to me. I'm not in the wilderness, I'm in a man made resort with landscaped beaches with freaking lounge chairs for tourists. I honestly would not have expected alligators in the water if there were no signs that warned of it, and I don't think that's an unrealistic assumption.
This tragedy is totally on Disney if we need to assign any blame, and none on the parents whatsoever IMO.
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I'll preface this by saying that none of this is arguing, I'm just curious about people's mindsets.
Why is that? Just because it's Disney World?
See in my mind, pretty much any freshwater in Florida is likely to contain alligators. Whether they actually attack or not is a bit of a different story. Personally, it would seem safe(r) to assume they are there than not, no? (and again this thinking applies to Disney and it's terrible signs as well)
Part of me wonders about what the reaction would be if this was a grown man who lost his toe or something as he waded in the water. My guess is there would a pretty good slant of people going "Well yeah, it's Florida you idiot."
The fact is parents tragically lost their child, so maybe it is a bit callous to pull apart the incident in this way. Just trying to understand other people's mindsets, because as I said, it was the first assumption for me. If the headline said "Child Dies in Florida" my first thoughts would be accidental shooting, or gator attack.
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Originally Posted by V
How many kids do you have?
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Not that this has anything to do with precautions taken when entering the water in Florida, but I have zero kids. But I also wouldn't even be throwing a stick for my dog into lagoon water in Florida. Maybe that's just my own personal overblown fear.