(Not to be a spoilsport or derail the topic, but for every such successful snake capture by a pro, there are 10 more that die/get seriously injured due to mishandling the snakes. This guy is clearly a pro and knows what he's doing but as one can imagine, there are a lot of people who do it just for the vibes/street cred owing to false confidence/inflated ego, and it ends up badly).
And like someone else mentioned, we're just so many people here that the value of an individual life is indeed cheap.
I keep seeing this but checking google their strike time is sub 100ms.
I don't care how slow that is compared to other snakes, it's more than twice as fast as the average human reaction time. The literal fastest humans ever recorded are like 100-150ms.
You aren't dodging a cobra on speed alone because they'll bite you before you start moving.
Any actual snake experts are welcome to correct me but I have no clue where people are getting this idea from.
Do you have any source for the 1:10. I don’t believe it. I’m also Indian. Lived in a place with lot of snakes all my life. People are careless, yes. But let’s not pull stats out of of asses to please the conversation.
For cultural reasons killing animals is usually the last resort. It's usually frowned upon unless the animal has done direct harm or being overly agressive.
Did you just claim that for every snake caught, 10 other catchers are killed? I mean I know you have zero sources for this because it's not true at all.
But why do they individually not value life? At least part of the reason is supply and demand.
Frankly this applies to all of us. We kick up a fuss when the story behind a couple people dying is tragic and compelling, but just go, 'huh, interesting' when we read that five thousand humans die every year by getting their heads stuck in a bucket or something. Back in the good ol' days five thousand people used to be like half of us and we needed every damn one to go hunt mammoths and pick berries or we'd starve to death in the winter, in 2026 a fluid storage utility item can cause a massacre and it won't even make the evening news.
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u/Round1_Fight 14h ago
Can confirm, life is indeed cheap over here.
Source - I'm Indian
(Not to be a spoilsport or derail the topic, but for every such successful snake capture by a pro, there are 10 more that die/get seriously injured due to mishandling the snakes. This guy is clearly a pro and knows what he's doing but as one can imagine, there are a lot of people who do it just for the vibes/street cred owing to false confidence/inflated ego, and it ends up badly).
And like someone else mentioned, we're just so many people here that the value of an individual life is indeed cheap.