First, I will be nice and address your statements.Of course, I could quit eating meat. In my subjective opinion, however, keeping animals as pets is an even more trivial luxury than my bloodthirsty hunger to devour them all. It's easy to blow things out of proportion with dramatic comparisons. In short – not the same thing, imho.
I am dissappointed that you don’t address the “gotta have it!” part of the deal.
About the hands thing - as if this forum used to be full with trophy shots, come on ...
Sorry, but that proper handling thing is wishful thinking.
Please leave me alone in my wishful thinking, thank you very much. Why not start your sentences with "I think/believe..." every now and then (of which I’m of course also guilty myself).
You mean the crushed heads of Ammodytes trophy shots we saw several times?
How many times would that have been? I think that you are (a) exaggerating the number of times this happened as well as (b) the harm of what is shown as well as (c) its impact. No point in discussing this again. Kinda gives me the impression your view on the world is slightly darker than mine. Let’s just leave it there.
it may even misguide novices in trying and using fixing methods, gloves, or tongs without the required experience and knowledge
Anyone who purely copies their behaviour from pictures on the internet is an idiot, imho. You can never avoid that. Not with millions of stupid rules and laws. Besides, I find it hard to imagine that you are that much of a philantropist to weep if one of those terrible macho boys would end up getting bitten...
Or you mean adder in a welding glove?
So if it was up to you, you would have a nice German Firewall to block any internet page that shows behaviour containing some level of risk?
(( Did I mention before that it's easy to blow things out of proportion with dramatic comparisons? ))
Now I repeat what my point was and is. Hopefully for the last time…Your post does not belong on a fieldherping forum, imho. I would not have been so naughty to point this out, if it wasn't that you are sometimes strong about what can and cannot be done on this forum => "the hands thing". It would be humble, if not suitable, from your part to admit that. Yet, instead we embark again on that same ol’ Big And Very Important Discussion.
Hands thing - it's not about what I think about it; it's about you wanting to enforce this on others by creating rules/laws...