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Man killed in shark attack off Western Australia (www.dw.com)

submitted 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) by MicroWave@lemmy.world to c/world@lemmy.world

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A diver has died after an attack by a suspected 4.5-meter shark near Michaelmas Island. It is the third fatal ‌shark attack ⁠in ⁠Australia in three weeks.

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[–] elucubra@sopuli.xyz 9 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Meanwhile, 2.700 people die DAILY from mosquito bites (from disease they transmit).

[–] poopkins@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

We desperately need to find a way to exterminate these wretched creatures from the face of the planet. If there was ever a reason to deliberately make something go extinct, this has got to be the one.

[–] KarnaSubarna@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Mosquitoes are part of food chain. They causes harm to us, but making them extinct is not an option unless we know how to manage the gap in food chain it will leave behind.

[–] poopkins@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

There's not any scientific consensus on that, and most biologists believe that they are in fact not an essential part of any other organism's diet.

There's something to be argued in favor of their existence, however: they are the single most significant reason humans haven't developed more of natural habitats like the rain forest.

[–] rimu@piefed.social 12 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Guess how many sharks Australians kill each year.

[–] mcheva@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Personally Im still at none, but I haven't seen anyone else's numbers.

What is this comment supposed to mean old mate deserved it?

[–] funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 3 points 4 days ago

they were probably bringing attention to the fact that most sharks don't want to attack people at all and rarely do it and hoping for no retaliation

[–] vk6flab@lemmy.radio 11 points 4 days ago (2 children)

The diver was spearfishing. Also, an Australian source, rather than a German one.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-06-06/diver-dies-in-shark-attack-off-albany-western-australia/106768050

[–] Modern_medicine_isnt@lemmy.world 5 points 4 days ago

Spearfishing seems like stacking one risk on top of another.

[+] Strawberry@lemmy.blahaj.zone -13 points 4 days ago (1 children)

He fuckin deserved it

[–] elucubra@sopuli.xyz 7 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Spear fishing, or any traditional fishing method, forr food, is about as ethical as it gets. It's a pretty even field. You're out of your element, and using muscle power, while exerting yourself, while running out of oxigen.

Trawling and other intensive methods are not.

Bow hunting large animals, especially boar, which can be dangerous as all fuck, is also fine by me. Shooting small game with fucking 12 gauge, is not.

[–] nitroemdash@lemmy.wtf 3 points 4 days ago (2 children)

How does a method being traditional make it more ethical? Aren't more ethical methods of hunting about minimising agony of an animal when killed using all available technology? So a firearm shot would be more ethical than slow-to-kill arrow?

[–] elucubra@sopuli.xyz 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

1st. I'm an omnivore. You are too. We are not hevibores. It's a survival trait. Rats, bears, and a few other animals are too. There is the question of choice, of course. I choose to remain what evolution has made me. That said, I try to eat as much free range meat/fish (I'm still trying to figure out the problem of aquaculture vs intensive and destructive fishing) as I possibly can.

2nd. Animals are part of a freeding chain, except for a few, like us, Orcas, etc. who are apex predators.

3rd. I don't hunt anymore, but I still fish. I feel better if the animal, my adversary, is in somewhat even terms. Call it some twisted atavic logic, but to me it makes it ethically acceptable.

BTW, I do get a pleasure from winning that fight, but I don't derive pleasure from the death itself.

Also, if minimizing the agony means that the animal has no chance, I know what I'd choose, having a chance.

But that's just me. However, just as I respect the choice of vegetarians and vegans, I do not acknowledge the rights of others judging me for being what evolution has made me. I do, however , try to be a "better" animal eater.

[–] Crackhappy@lemmy.world 0 points 3 days ago

I consider your argument the more ethical one. If an animal is going to die, isn't the most humane method the most ethical? However, I also see the other side, which is giving the animal the chance to kill the human first. It's kinda twisted logic. If you're going that route then the most humane method would be not kill them at all.

[–] Strawberry@lemmy.blahaj.zone -2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Fine by you does not mean fine by the animal. It's not "about as ethical as it gets". That's completely delusional. Exercising and holding your breath does not factor into the ethics of needless killing.

[–] anon_8675309@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Killing plants is unethical.

[–] Strawberry@lemmy.blahaj.zone -4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

sure sweetie

[–] anon_8675309@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

What? They’re alive. It’s been shown they communicate. They’re a LOT more sophisticated than people think.

[–] Strawberry@lemmy.blahaj.zone -1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I'm sure this is a belief you seriously hold with great conviction. It just happens to only come up when you're confronted with the cruelty of killing and eating sentient animals

[–] anon_8675309@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Just like you won’t, in any way whatsoever, entertain the idea that eating plants is unethical. Your convictions on the matter are so strong that you simply won’t consider that they, too, are living beings.

[–] Strawberry@lemmy.blahaj.zone -2 points 3 days ago

When did I state that plants aren't alive? They are not sentient. That's a different thing. Even if they were sentient, it wouldn't change the fact that we need to eat plants to survive. We do not need to eat animals. And we cause fewer plant deaths by eating them directly, rather than indirectly through eating organisms of higher trophic levels.

My rejection of your argument based on its merits is not a failure to consider it.

[–] III@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Oh man... you know what that means. Shark Party.

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 4 days ago

Context for those not in the know