so does dirt. And if this was rock on rock then it would still be there. He wiggled it and it fell over.
I highlighted it because I walked it and knew it was hacked out of a mountain. It’s relevant to the discussion and you don’t get to hand wave it away because it was done in 1926. The mountain is a substantial visual entity unto itself. What this guy did was push over a rock. You can go to any fast stream and see a zillion of then just like it. They’re rocks, not monumental displays of nature.
The park service has to stipulate what can and cannot be disturbed in clear terms in order for them to fine or prosecute visitors for their actions. If this was as cut and dried as you appear to believe then they would have moved immediately against the person in question given that he video taped the evidence and posted it freely.
Yeah, that’s a pretty serious problem in Mormonism. The founder, Joseph Smith took child brides and married his friends’ wives claiming that God had commanded him to do so.
In this case, I’d say that yes, it would work for many Mormons because they believe that they live a higher law than the government. People will say that it’s a tragedy of sorts, that if the government officials had the same powers they they would understand that he received a prompting from God and God knows best.
Rock’s still there. Dirt’s still there. Just like all the other rocks and dirt surrounding it. The difference between what this guy did and what the park rangers did in my example is that this is reversible. The moral outrage over this is overblown and without perspective.
I’m really happy that you know more than the park rangers who were discussing this.
Do you actually look at the links you post? A quote from the video on how to repair the damage.
Actually, since it’s something which is painfully obvious to you, and only you in the world, and since you understand things better than the experts, why don’t you apply for a job running the universe?
park rangers are experts at lifting stuff? News to me. And all I’ve done my entire adult life is airlift things like 10,000 lb generators and 100,000 lb machinery. This is block and tackle stuff that can be hiked in. Hell, I’ve got 20,000 lb straps sitting in my garage.
Moving the rock is not a problem. The question is why would the park do it in the first place? It obviously wasn’t stable and shouldn’t be returned to it’s original state.
It was stable enough to sit there for 170 million years. Once it was pushed, the leverage and changed balance/position was too much for the thin connection. As long as it was left alone, it would have stayed there.
clearly it wasn’t very stable when it was pushed over. I posted a picture of the park from wiki. Literally tons of rocks that have fallen in the area. that’s what naturally occurs.
This was clearly NOT a large formation of any worth like the pictures of hoodoos posted by others. It’s also not a pebble to be kicked around while walking. It’s a rock big enough to be pushed around and worthy of a fine or the cost of restoring it to what should be a more stable version of it’s original stature.
Every other ass who’s wandered in has managed to walk past that rock formation without toppling it over. It takes a really special asshole to require a tattooed admonition.
I’d like to see them prosecuted to the full extent of the law. I always thought that scouts were supposed to be respectful of nature. What next, sawing down a sequoia because you think it might fall some day?