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Re:Years of fighting every wildfire helped fuel the Western ... by throwaway0a5e on Thursday August 05, 2021 @11:58AM (#28075551)
They also had a few thousand years of practice figuring out what works in the local environment.

Human nature is one of the few things that seems to be consistent throughout all of history across all civilizations. The natives probably had just as many idiots as every other civilization.

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Re:Years of fighting every wildfire helped fuel the Western ... by wizzwizz4 on Thursday August 05, 2021 @01:36PM (#28076951)
> The natives probably had just as many idiots as every other civilization.

If one person can cause a tragedy by mistake, you have a systematic failure, not a failure of the individual. A sign of a good system is that the occasional fool doesn't end up with the horizon burning.

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